Power Play Setup
Minervini's most powerful setup, and his rarest. A stock surges 100% or more in eight weeks or less on massive volume — the kind of thrust that only happens when institutions will pay almost any price to get in — and then, instead of handing the move back, pauses in a very shallow and orderly base. The precursor move is the pattern: without a double in under two months this is not a Power Play, whatever else the chart looks like. Expect long stretches with no candidates; that is the setup behaving correctly.
Sample still building: 1 eligible setup in the 2025-03-17–2026-09-04 source-bar window. Rates stay hidden until n=30. Historical and illustrative, not predictive.
How this is measured →Setup Criteria
- › Precursor move: 100%+ advance in 8 weeks or less, on sharply expanded volume
- › Correction depth: no more than 20–25% off the peak
- › Consolidation: roughly 3–6 weeks (some resolve in 10–12 sessions)
- › Volume dries up through the base
- › Confirmed Stage 2 uptrend with RS leadership
- › If the correction is under 10%, the progressive-tightening rule is waived
Buy aggressively on the breakout — full position at the pivot.
Tight — often 3–5% below entry. Power Plays don't need room.
Worked Example
No stored Power Play detection to chart yet — a worked example appears here automatically the next time the scanner flags one with price history on file.
No Power Play setups in the latest scan
Market conditions may not be producing this pattern right now — the scanner re-checks every trading day.
