The Ticker Nerd Rank finds the growth stocks the crowd isn’t watching.
It scores 4,600 US stocks every trading day. The Ticker Nerd 20 owns the best twenty by rule — most outside the S&P 500, names you almost certainly don’t already own.
Tired of chasing stocks and feeling a step behind?
Every hot list, price target and urgent headline has a business model behind it. Brokers earn when you trade. Media earns when you watch. None of them earn more when you make money.
And AI now floods every feed with confident-sounding stock research, free and instantly. Chasing whatever is loudest fills a portfolio with last year’s winners, bought near their highs.
The way out is a framework — a fixed set of measures for what actually moves stock prices, applied to every stock, every day. That is why the rank exists.
One number per stock, updated every day.
Each stock scores 0 to 100 on every factor, against the whole market, and the factor scores combine into one number — its rank. The model covers roughly 4,600 US-listed stocks and re-scores them every trading day.
A price tells you what a stock did today. The rank tells you whether the evidence behind it changed.
The factors are not ours — value, momentum, quality and the rest have been tested in the open since the 1970s. The factors, explained plainly
Every rule ran against more than twenty years of market history before it touched money — rules that only work in hindsight fail there. The full methodology, tests and all
Percentile, 0–100, against every US stock we score.
Free for every stock we cover. No account, no email.
A rank says what the evidence favours today — never when to buy, when to sell, or how much to own. That part is the Ticker Nerd 20, whose rules watch the scores daily, trade rarely, and email members whenever the portfolio changes.
+37.8% in the last 12 months · S&P 500 Equal Weight +21.6%
Simulated before 20 July 2026, live since. Backtested figures are hypothetical and were not traded. The full basis
Who rose, who fell, and why.
The week’s biggest rank moves, in either direction.
Packaging & Containers · The company has been paying debt down rather than borrowing more.
Apparel Manufacturing · The company has been paying debt down rather than borrowing more.
Scientific & Technical Instruments · Reported profit is backed by cash, and the company is not expanding recklessly.
Pollution & Treatment Controls · The company has taken on more debt over the past year, measured against what it owns.
Internet Content & Information · A large share of reported profit has not shown up as cash, or the balance sheet is expanding quickly — both tend to unwind.
Airlines · A large share of reported profit has not shown up as cash, or the balance sheet is expanding quickly — both tend to unwind.
Every Monday, the Market Radar mails this table with the week’s news checked against each move — free.
The Market Radar is free, and lands every Monday before the open.
Where the market went, what moved, whose rank changed, and one factor explained with the week’s best and worst scorer. Unsubscribe any time.
Run by a Goldman Sachs–trained trader, with his own money in it.
I’m Aslam Ghouse. Fourteen years as a systematic FX trader, nine of them at Goldman Sachs, and a CFA charterholder since 2015.
Trading by model was my day job. Ticker Nerd is the same discipline pointed at stocks.
The model does the choosing, and every trade it has made is published, the losers included. The record
My own money is in the same twenty stocks members see.
AI drafts the briefs and runs the plumbing here, openly. It never picks a stock.
- The rank, for every stock we cover
- The stock pages
- The Market Radar email, every Monday
- The Ticker Nerd 20 — the portfolio itself
- An email whenever the portfolio changes
- A written brief on every holding
- The full record, trade by trade
$199 a year — under $4 a week · 30-day full refund, no questions.