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The full discipline of technical analysis, at computational depth — distilled into briefs.

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNICAL-ANALYSIS RESEARCH

Independent technical research for tactical decision-making and risk management. Every question runs the same process — read the market structure, weigh the full body of technical evidence, challenge competing explanations, file only what survives. Every brief states its confirmation path, invalidation level, and reward/risk before it argues a view.

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Research run LF-0428 Price structure Driver compositeTechnical brief
Reward / risk
2.6R
ATR
1.4%
Brief thesis

Leadership is improving as trend, Relative Strength, and RRG rotation align.

Discovery promotes the setup only after market structure, breadth, volatility, and momentum improve together. The brief remains conditional until confirmation, invalidation, and reward/risk are visible.

The established discipline of technical analysis is the standard each brief is held to.

3 TIERS · 13 DOMAINS

  1. Reading market structure

    Evidence

    The foundational reading of market structure — trend, chart construction, classical patterns, indicators, cycles, statistics, volatility, breadth, sentiment, and cross-asset behavior — establishing what the market is actually doing.

  2. Qualifying opportunity and risk

    Synthesis

    Applying the discipline to qualify opportunity and risk — relative strength and RRG rotation, momentum and trend weighting, volatility compression, entries and exits, and risk plans — with competing explanations challenged.

  3. The practitioner's written judgment

    Judgment

    The practitioner's written judgment on position and portfolio risk and reward/risk — a thesis that states the evidence, justifies the view, and keeps invalidation visible.

Every brief draws on the full body of the discipline:

Theory & History

Dow theory, market efficiency and its critique, Fibonacci relationships, fusion with fundamental work

Trend Analysis

Trend phases and following, volume and open interest, market internals — breadth, advance-decline, new highs and lows, breadth thrusts

Chart Construction

Bar, candlestick, and point-and-figure charts; scaling and timeframes, multiple data sets, market profile

Classical Patterns

Reversal and continuation formations, candlestick patterns, point-and-figure application, support and resistance, measured moves

Technical Indicators

Moving averages, indicator construction, momentum and oscillator interpretation, VWAP, Bollinger Bands in practice

Cycle Analysis

Cycle theory and common cycles, applied and seasonal cycles, Elliott wave, cycle-driven approaches

Volatility Analysis

Historical and options-derived volatility, compression and expansion, the VIX complex, volatility risk premium

Statistical Methods

Descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistics, correlation, regression, significance testing

Behavioral Finance

Bias and herding, crowd psychology, the anatomy of market bubbles

Sentiment

Sentiment from market data, surveys, and news flow; stock-market and derivatives-market sentiment, contrarian extremes

Comparative Market Analysis

Relative strength and RRG rotation; intermarket analysis across equities, bonds, futures, currencies, digital assets, and options

Systems & Quantitative Methods

Trading-system design, quantitative techniques, back-testing, walk-forward review, Monte Carlo validation

Risk & Portfolio Management

Perspectives on risk, ATR-based sizing and stops, drawdown control, breadth over the market cycle, portfolio construction

From market question to research brief.

4 STAGES · EVIDENCE ATTACHED

The computational process accelerates discovery while preserving a reviewable technical-analysis research trail.

Universe

Frame the technical-analysis research mandate

Foundation: Chart construction, trend, patterns, indicators, cycles, volatility, and risk vocabulary

Discovery

Sweep the full body of technical evidence

Opportunity: Relative strength, RRG, Bollinger compression, classical setups, and confirmation

Challenge

Challenge and rank signal quality

Risk: ATR stops, invalidation, position sizing, reward/risk, drawdown, and portfolio context

Brief

Publish the brief

Validation: Back-testing, walk-forward review, Monte Carlo, and model suitability

How the computation runs
Specialized research agents — agentic AI working in defined analyst roles — sweep the evidence at a depth and cadence a manual desk cannot sustain, share intermediate findings, and challenge weak assumptions before anything is escalated.
How insights become briefs
Potential insights become explainable briefings: what changed, why it matters, what would invalidate the setup, and which observable market conditions deserve attention next — packaged for your own technical analysis playbook.

One brief, in full.

RUN LF-0428 · 3 BRIEF SYSTEMS

Specimen · illustrative structure and levelsLF-0428 · 2026-08-07

Leadership is improving as trend, Relative Strength, and RRG rotation align.

Thesis
Price structure holds a rising base above the driver composite while weekly Relative Strength versus the benchmark turns up and RRG rotation crosses into Improving. Leadership is strengthening, not stretched.
Confirmation
0.71: A weekly close above the marked structure high on expanding breadth, with the confirmation composite holding above threshold. Until then the setup stays conditional — watched, not acted on.
Invalidation
1.4% ATR: Two consecutive weekly closes back inside the base end the thesis. The level is set before entry from the ATR risk unit and published with the brief.
Reward / risk
2.6R: Measured to the first structural objective at the prior distribution shelf. If reward/risk degrades below 2R on drift, the brief is withdrawn rather than re-argued.
Review
Weekly: Reviewed against the posted confirmation and invalidation — the brief states what would prove it wrong before it argues what could go right.
Prepared and reviewedDarren Labrum

From the run record:

OD-08052026-08-05Risk-on regime · 3 candidates judged · 0 published — every name cut under challenge

A night that files nothing is a disposition, not a failure — a brief that cannot survive challenge is withheld.

The screening systems behind each brief:

RS & RRG Rotation

Relative Strength and Relative Rotation Graphs screen for leadership improving versus a benchmark, with trend and momentum used to decide whether a rotation deserves research attention.

Bollinger Compression

Bollinger Bands, BandWidth, volatility compression, volume, momentum, and relative strength flag squeeze conditions where expansion may create an actionable setup.

Classical + ATR

Classical chart patterns, support and resistance, ATR-based entries and stops, measured objectives, reward/risk, back-testing, walk-forward review, and Monte Carlo analysis convert chart observations into testable trade design.

Discipline stays visible. Computation accelerates discovery — it never hides the reasoning.

VALIDATION · 5 STANDARDS · 3 DELIVERABLES

Deliverables:

Decision-ready market research briefs

Briefs that inform investors and traders with the thesis, technical setup, evidence quality, invalidation conditions, and monitored follow-through.

Technical driver maps

Visual maps that connect trend structure, leadership, breadth, volatility, intermarket context, and alternate explanations into one research narrative.

Research narrative dashboards

Living research surfaces for signal state, watchlist movement, evidence confidence, narrative status, and analyst review checkpoints.

  • The foundational reading of market structure sets the language of trend, chart construction, patterns, indicators, cycles, volatility, and risk
  • Applying the discipline qualifies opportunity and risk: relative strength weighting, risk plans, model review, and volatility integration
  • The practitioner's written judgment keeps each brief focused on market action, position management, portfolio risk, and defensible research opinions
  • The computational process preserves evidence trails that separate durable signals from convenient narratives
  • Market research is delivered as evidence-based analysis, not personalized investment advice

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Informed by the established CMT body of knowledge; Lakefront Research is not affiliated with or endorsed by CMT Association. Briefs are educational research and do not constitute personalized investment advice.

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