One price on Monday sets up the trade for the entire week.

How one candle sets the level

A large green daily candle is not a chart pattern. It's a record of an imbalance.

The body of that candle is the distance between where the stock opened and where it closed. When that distance is unusually large, buyers took everything that was available that day and kept going. The stock didn't drift higher. It was moved.

That’s how Monday becomes the anchor. It's the level the market established while it was buying with conviction.

This anchor does two jobs.

The first is reference. As long as the stock holds above the level where that buying happened, the imbalance is still intact. When it doesn't, the reason for being in the trade is gone. You're not interpreting the stock. You're comparing one number to another.

The second is risk. Most methods take the entry from one place and the stop from somewhere else, like a moving average, a fixed percentage, or a recent low. When those two numbers come from unrelated sources, the stop has no real connection to the reason for the trade. 

That's why so many traders end up renegotiating a stop in the middle of the week. When the entry and the risk both come off the same candle, there is nothing to renegotiate. The Weekly Anchor holds or it doesn't.

That's why the decisions get made on Monday. Not because Monday is special, but because by Monday's close the market has already shown you both of the things the trade depends on.

Why the adjustments are sized to the stock

A stock that routinely moves four percent a day and a stock that moves one percent a day should not be managed the same way. Most traders use the same trailing stop on both.

On the quiet stock, that stop sits too far away and gives back more of the move than it needs to. On the volatile stock, it sits inside the range that stock covers on an ordinary day, so normal movement ends a trade that was working.

This is the reason a lot of part-time traders decide they're bad at exits. Usually they're applying one rule to stocks that require different ones.

The Weekly Anchor scales the adjustment to each stock's own volatility, so protection tightens at a rate that particular stock can tolerate. Those levels are worked out when the trade is planned, not while it's running.

What this is, and what it isn't

The Weekly Anchor is one setup. It is not going to tell you how to interpret an earnings report, what the Fed is going to do or how to trade options. It's a specific way to structure a swing trade around a single Monday price level. 

Implementation of The Weekly Anchor strategy requires a basic knowledge of common technical analysis principles such as candlestick charts as well as how to place orders.

What it does provide is a repeatable process that takes about 40 minutes each week.

One setup, learned properly, that fits alongside everything else you already do.

What the week looks like

"I finally stopped checking charts every hour... The Weekly Anchor has given me a peace of mind I didn't know was possible."

~ Tim B.

" It's amazing how looking at Monday's open price brings this in focus."

~ Gabe H.

I purchased the weekly anchor a few weeks ago and I think it's awesome.
The content was great and easy to follow.
The most important part is I've been green for the last 3 weeks using the system.

~ Jay N.

"Weekly Anchor course is fantastic .. full of AHAs!"
~ Alice I.

Hi, I'm Pete Renzulli

One question kept coming up while I was running it. Institutions were consistently profitable and retail traders weren't, and the gap didn't come down to information or intelligence.

The answer came out of working alongside former NYSE specialists, floor clerks, and brokers. We reverse engineered how institutional trading actually operates: not the theory, the mechanics. That work became the foundation of everything I teach.

The Weekly Anchor is one piece of it. It's the setup I'd hand to someone who wants to learn the approach through a single, well-defined trade rather than all at once.

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