First Pullback
Buy the first measured dip back to the base.
After a stock breaks out and runs, the first controlled pullback toward its base is often the lowest-risk entry of the entire move. The trend has already proven itself, the buyers have already shown up, and the dip hands you a better price. We take the first one, and only when it behaves like a dip rather than a breakdown.
Sector first, then the name.
The trend is established first. The same sector leadership and confirmed regime that powers a Stage 2 entry has to already be in place. We are adding to strength, not catching a falling knife.
Then we watch the character of the dip. A controlled pullback toward the base, on lighter conviction, is a gift. A sharp break down through the base on heavy selling is a warning, and that one we leave alone.
What has to be true before you see it.
Every candidate runs the same conviction screens. Most fail at least one and never reach you. The rejection is the product.
The name is already in a confirmed uptrend with the regime on its side. The pullback is a pause, not a reversal.
A controlled dip toward the base, not a breakdown through it. That difference is the whole setup.
The group is holding up. A pullback in a leader is an entry; a pullback in a fading sector is a trap.
Price stabilizes and turns back up at the level. We enter on the turn, with the stop just below the base.
One of two setups, on the same engine.
Both ETF Setups plays sit on the same daily-regime foundation and run through the same mechanical exit ladder: disaster stop, break-even, partial, runner. Only the entry differs. See the other one, or read how the whole system fits together.
See it fire on real money.
Every First Pullback we've taken is in the public record, winners and losers.