Case study · VMC · 2024.08 – 2026.07
One symbol, one year — from the base to a cup and handle
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Always start with the weekly chart
Daily charts are noisy; the longer trend shows first on the weekly. This is one year of VMC, a US building-materials company — each scene shows only the bars known that day.
Walk it yourself
Would you have spotted it with no label on the chart?
We'll save the Cup & Handle condition as one of your own scans. It then stands in the Signals tab of the note sidebar, and one tap on Practice opens a real past spot where that condition actually fired — you see only the bars up to that day, and you walk the rest yourself.
It starts in the note sidebar → Signals tab. The same condition also drives signal search in that tab.
But how would you watch this across thousands of symbols?
Every signal in this story is a record of what SQMATE actually detected on that date. The same detectors sweep 8,000+ symbols every day — you can open the symbols standing in this shape today.
This page is an observation of past records and does not recommend trading any particular symbol.
Read next: The research that opened 30,000 cup-and-handles
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