A rules-based momentum strategy. One action per month. No guesswork, no market watching, no stress.
Momentum investing is one of the most studied and replicated effects in financial markets. The principle is straightforward: stocks that have performed strongly in recent months tend to continue outperforming in the near term.
No-Stress-Trading applies this principle systematically to the Nasdaq-100 — one of the world's most tracked and liquid stock indices. At the start of each month, our algorithm scores every stock in the index by recent performance momentum. The top 3–6 stocks are selected. You sell only the stocks that dropped off the list, keep any that remained, and buy the new additions with the proceeds.
That's the entire strategy. No discretion, no gut feeling, no news-reading. The algorithm does the work. You execute it in 5 minutes.
On the first trading day of each month, you receive an email with your signal. It contains: the 3–6 stocks selected for this month, the rationale behind each pick (brief, no jargon), and exact instructions for which stocks to sell and which new ones to buy.
Log into your broker. Sell only the stocks that are no longer on the signal list. Keep any stocks that appear again in the new signal — no adjustment needed. Buy the new stocks in equal amounts using the proceeds from what you sold. You're done. We provide a worked example in every signal email showing the exact calculation.
No checking. No reacting to news. No second-guessing. Your next action is on the 1st of next month. This discipline — acting once and then doing nothing — is one of the most important reasons the strategy works. The less you interfere, the better the compounding.
Here is exactly how a typical monthly trade works, using real values from August 2024.
| Stock | Price | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netflix | $688.44 | 42 | $28,914.48 |
| Tesla | $213.21 | 150 | $31,981.50 |
| Amazon | $175.50 | 114 | $20,007.00 |
| Airbnb | $115.71 | 215 | $24,877.65 |
| Total | $105,780.63 |
| Stock | Action | Value |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | New buy | $24,599.71 |
| Apple | New buy | $24,599.71 |
| Tesla | Kept — no action | $31,981.50 |
| Microsoft | New buy | $24,599.71 |
| Total | $105,780.63 |
Tesla was kept at its existing value — no action required. Proceeds from Netflix, Amazon, and Airbnb were divided equally across three new positions. No cash left over.
Any broker allowing you to buy US-listed Nasdaq-100 stocks. Trade Republic, Scalable Capital, Interactive Brokers, and eToro all qualify. We are not affiliated with any broker.
Below this amount, splitting proceeds equally across 3–6 new stocks becomes impractical due to minimum share quantities and transaction costs relative to portfolio size.
On the first trading day of each month (or each Monday for the Weekly Strategy). That is the only time commitment required. No monitoring between signals.
Every return figure is publicly verifiable. Nothing is hidden — including the down years.