About
A warning brand, not an advice brand.
Broken Stocks exists to do one thing well: tell you when something you own is in structural decline, before the headlines catch up. It does not tell you what to buy or sell.
Who builds this
Broken Stocks is built and maintained by a working paid-search and markets practitioner who trades The Strat (Rob Smith's price-action methodology). The tier system is a direct application of Strat time-frame-continuity concepts to drawdown screening — it is the same framework used to run the underlying detection engine daily, not a marketing abstraction.
Where the data comes from
Every listing is computed nightly from a U.S.-equity universe of roughly 3,000 names. Prices are split-adjusted. A ticker joins the list when it is down 20% or more from its rolling 252-day high, and is tiered by decline depth, decline sigma, and time-frame continuity. The exact thresholds are public on the methodology page; the vocabulary is defined in the glossary.
What this deliberately does not do
- It does not issue buy or sell recommendations.
- It does not editorialize about a company's management, fundamentals, or news. Listings are technical and reflect price action only.
- It does not predict. The job is recognition, not forecasting — a stock leaving the list is a fact about price, not a call.
- It is not financial advice. Consult a licensed advisor before acting on anything here.
How it relates to ConvictionEdge
Broken Stocks is the free downside-recognition brand. Its sister tool, ConvictionEdge, is the paid research brand that works out whether a recovering name is investable. They are deliberately separate: this site stops at flagging the structure.
Contact
Corrections, data questions, and feedback: @SwingTr74597686 on X. If a listing looks wrong, tell us the ticker and the date — the screen is rules-based, so errors are reproducible and fixable.