How I Turned $247 Into $7,141 With One Swing Trade
How I Find Stocks Before They Explode | Edition 69
Today I'm going to show you exactly how I made $7,141 from a single trade by risking only $247.
That's a 1 to 29 risk to reward trade.
How I catched the stocks before they explode.
First, you need a scanner, something that feeds you ideas.
I use 5 different scanners, and together they give me between 100 and 200 tickers.
The one that gave me this idea is the same scanner we use inside the Freedom Trades PRO community.
Here are the filters:
Those who are PRO already have access to it.
The stock where I made this money is called HPE, and it appeared on my scanner list on March 25 when it printed a daily candle with 52M shares traded in volume.
At that time, the chart looked like this:
What drew me to it was that it was in a 10-month base.
It had managed to break above the 200MA, earnings growth was in double digits, and volume was increasing.
Plus, it was in a hot group called “Computer Processing Hardware,” which is part of the AI theme right now.
The RS Rating at that time was also above 80, and it was not overextended from the 50MA.
So what I did was put it immediately on my focus list.
The Entry
Obviously, that was not my entry. I could not chase the gap up on that trade.
I needed a compression zone where risk would be as small as possible and reward as large as possible.
So I waited, patiently, for that compression to happen.
Watch what happens 3 weeks later:
Immediately after I see that very dry volume day combined with an inside bar and price contraction over the last 5 sessions, I know it’s time to buy.
It was important for me that the next day it would break above the previous high set on April 15.
Let’s look even deeper on the 5-minute timeframe so you can see my exact entry and stop.
Immediately after I notice that the stock is offering a 5-minute ORB, I enter a position at $24.99 with a stop at the low of day, and it gives me a 3.71% unrealized profit, the cushion I can use to hold overnight.
IMPORTANT
My position size is not as relevant as my risk.
I was risking 0.20% of my capital!
You need to understand that yes, this was a high-probability trade, but I had no idea if this would be the big one that brings me 29R.
That’s why we need as many shots as possible.
And if we risk 10%, 5%, or even 2% of capital for each trade, that’s too much.
There is only a matter of time before we blow up our account.
Can you imagine? 0.20% risk to make over $7,000.
This is the power of risk management.
EXTRA: I also have a 25% position size cap, so the largest position I can have in a single ticker is 25%.
I do this to manage the risk of an overnight gap.
But again, if you have a 25% position and your stock gaps down by, say, 10%, that’s a 2.5% loss.
Yes, it sucks, but it’s still a manageable drawdown that you can recover from.
Trade Management
Okay, let’s continue.
On day two, I already had a 6R trade, meaning I can sell 1/3 of the position to offset the risk and essentially make this a risk-free trade.
BUT
Watch what happens next.
The stock explodes.
This is how I managed the trade:
What is even crazier is that it offers another setup, another small base with contraction where you can add to your position.
Unfortunately, I did not add to my position, but if I had, this would easily be a 5-figure trade.
BUT
Please notice how I sell into strength.
You’re probably wondering, how do I know when to sell?
Well, I simply use an indicator that calculates how overextended the price is from the 50MA.
And it looks like this:
When a stock reaches 7 ATR multiples, I trim some, then if it reaches 8 ATR I trim some more, and so on.
And the last piece, I just let it run until it closes below the 10 MA.
And that happened only on June 10, 2026.
If you want the indicators I use, I created a post here where you can copy all of them for free.
Trade Psychology
Here’s a factor I want to mention:
HPE was not a perfect trade.
BECAUSE
I did not manage to buy the bottom or sell the top.
And that will be the case forever.
And you need to get used to that and become comfortable with it.
In trading there is a concept called “Maximum Adversity.”
And Maximum Adversity will make your life hell.
You need to understand that you will never be satisfied.
Like I said, HPE offered me another setup where I could add to my position.
I did not do that.
Automatically, I left money on the table.
If I had not trimmed my position, I would have made way more money.
If I had ignored my selling rules, I would have made more money.
If I had been oversized, I would have made more money.
So you see,
I can find so many reasons to be unhappy.
And this will mess with your trading.
It will make you change and bend your rules and destroy your edge.
INSTEAD
What you can do is think about how many times your rules saved you.
Saved you from oversizing, blowing your account, and kept your mental capital intact.
We must sell our losers fast and our winners slow.
REMEMBER that.
This trade is not a one‑off.
This is exactly the kind of work we do every day inside the PRO community on our Discord server.
We constantly hunt for opportunities like HPE and share stocks with strong relative strength, clear bases, and asymmetric risk to reward.
Plus, you get:
Daily trade signals with exact entry and stops.
My full focus list every morning before market open
Access to 100+ members who trade this same swing trading playbook
The exact indicators I use to sell into strength and manage winners
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Vladislav
Hi there, I am considering subscribing. Question about the method: you send a weekly plan here on substack (during the weekend) , then everyday M-F you decide how to act based on the weekly plan and keep in touch on Discord.
Is that correct?
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