Systematic stock analysis

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.

The problem

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.

The rank

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

NVDANVIDIA Corp.As at 19 Aug 2026
72
Ticker Nerd Rank

Percentile, 0–100, against every US stock we score.

Quality98
Revisions84
Volatility79
Growth75
Momentum65
Value63
Issuance62
Accruals13
Size0

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.

+36.9% in the last 12 months · S&P 500 Equal Weight +20.9%

Simulated before 20 July 2026, live since. Backtested figures are hypothetical and were not traded. The full basis

This week

Who rose, who fell, and why.

The week’s biggest rank moves, in either direction.

Rank moversSince 12 Aug 2026
Up
TGTTarget Corp.

Discount Stores · Sales and profits are climbing, and climbing faster than before.

+17 · now 95
ALMS
ALMSAlumis, Inc.

Biotechnology · Reported profit is backed by cash, and the company is not expanding recklessly.

+16 · now 47
XP
XPXP, Inc.

Capital Markets · Analysts have, on balance, been raising their forecasts.

+15 · now 67
Down
ONDS
ONDSOndas, Inc.

Communication Equipment · Analysts have, on balance, been cutting their forecasts.

-20 · now 28
VIK
VIKViking Holdings Ltd. (Bermuda)

Travel Services · Analysts have, on balance, been cutting their forecasts.

-14 · now 46
VIAV
VIAVViavi Solutions, Inc.

Communication Equipment · The company has taken on more debt over the past year, measured against what it owns.

-11 · now 63
Each note names the factor score that moved — computed from the data, not opined.

Every Monday, the Market Radar mails this table with the week’s news checked against each move — free.

The Monday email

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.

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Who runs it

Run by a Goldman Sachs–trained trader, with his own money in it.

Aslam Ghouse

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.

More about me

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Free, for everyone
  • The rank, for every stock we cover
  • The stock pages
  • The Market Radar email, every Monday
Membership
  • 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.