Hold strength

Hold strength: the short answer

Hold strength — the same thing Coil's methodology pages call hold-conviction — is a 0–100 read of whether a stock's structure supports holding a position once entered. Most scanners score the entry and stop there. Hold strength asks the question that decides whether a good entry becomes a position or a round trip: once you're in, does the structure let you stay in?

What feeds it

Three structural reads, all computable before the position exists:

• Trend maturity. How many legs has this move already run? A leader late in its trend can keep leading, but late-leg names carry more give-back risk — Coil's maturity channel keeps their opportunity scores but treats them differently on risk.
• Distance to support. How far below price is the level that should hold? A name sitting just above real support can be held through noise; a name floating far above its last defended level cannot — every dip becomes a decision.
• Gap and volatility risk. How does this name move when it moves against you — grinding pullbacks you can manage, or overnight gaps that skip past any exit?

What a low hold score changes

A strong chart with weak hold structure is the classic quick trade dressed as a position. On Coil's board that name keeps its opportunity score — hold strength is 0.3 of the blend, so it drags the number rather than zeroing it — but the risk treatment changes: aged, late-leg leaders get wider structural stops, gap-risk flags, and no leverage mapping. The score says own it; the hold read says own it on different terms.

Why it exists

Coil's edge is buying weakness in an uptrend, and the cost of that edge is sitting through the rest of the pullback you bought. Hold strength prices that sit before entry, so the difference between a two-day trade and a multi-week hold is a scored property of the setup — not a decision improvised at the first red candle. The full model sits with the weights on how Coil works.

People also ask

What is hold strength on Coil's board?

It is Coil's 0–100 read of whether a stock's structure supports holding after entry — trend maturity, distance to real support, and gap risk, computed before the position exists. It is 0.3 of the opportunity score's fixed blend.

Are hold strength and hold-conviction the same thing?

Yes — one lens, two names. The board and product pages say hold strength; the methodology write-up says hold-conviction. Both mean the structural read of whether you can stay in a name once entered.

Why would a strong stock get a weak hold score?

Usually trend maturity or air under the price: a late-leg leader far above its last defended support can keep rising, but every dip forces a decision and an overnight gap can skip past a stop. The name stays scored — the risk treatment is what changes: wider stops, gap flags, no leverage.

Does hold strength change how the engine trades a name?

It changes the terms, not the permission. Late-leg, low-hold names keep their opportunity scores but get wider structural stops, gap-risk flags, and no leveraged vehicle mapping — the engine can still own them, sized and stopped for what they are.

Related terms

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