The Hardest Decision in Trading — And How I Just Automated It

by | Jan 15, 2026

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You know what the hardest decision in trading is?

It’s not picking the right stock… It’s not even knowing when to sell…

It’s figuring out when to buy a stock that’s pulled back, without catching a falling knife.

Everyone has had that moment where you stare at a chart and think…

Can I buy it here? 

Then the doubt hits — it might sell off again and that would suck.

That’s the one thing you never want to do, you never want to try to catch a falling knife.

That’s the exact problem I’ve been wrestling with, and I believe I’ve finally solved it.

The Scanner That Took Half a Year to Build

I’ve spent the last six months developing a scanner that does something I’ve been doing manually for years but could never scale.

It identifies when S&P 500 (SPY), S&P 400 (MID), S&P 100 (OEX), Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) and Dow 30 (DIA) stocks have pulled back between 5% and 10%, then tells me when the pullback is actually done and it’s safe to buy.

I’ve always traded this way myself, but I could only watch 40 or 50 stocks at a time.

You just can’t manually track every quality name across the major indexes. So I handed the concept to the programming team and told them to build it.

It took them forever, but now it’s working the way I envisioned.

Take Netflix (NFLX) as an example. When it was falling back in November, it never showed up in my scanner, which told me it was still dumping.

The system didn’t signal an entry because the knife was still falling. That’s exactly what I want. I don’t want to pay $125 for NFLX when I can wait and buy it at $90.

What Happens Next

The programming team backtested this scanner over 64 years to validate the results. We wanted to be absolutely sure it held up under different market conditions before rolling it out widely.

The system doesn’t work on every stock out there — it focuses on the most liquid, highest quality names from the major indexes and numerous ETFs.

That’s by design. I want the cream of the crop, not every penny stock on the board.

I’ll be revealing the full details of this scanner at 1 p.m. ET this Sunday during a session with Roger — save your seat here! I’ll walk through exactly how it works, what signals it’s looking for and how I’m using it in my own trading.

If you’ve ever struggled with timing pullbacks — and who hasn’t — this might be the answer you’ve been looking for.

Geof Smith
Geof Smith Trading 

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