The Methodology

The Iridium Alpha-Seeker
Iridium Investment LAB.

Iridium Investment LAB brings together two rule-based trading systems, complementary and independent. There is a single goal: objective capital management.

Alpha Seeker looks for stock-market leaders by combining fundamental growth, technical trend and precise entry timing. The Bensdorp Suite runs seven automated strategies — trend-following and mean-reversion, long and short. Both show their logic step by step and promise no returns.

System 1 · Equity screener

The 5-Step Funnel (Current Pipeline)

11. Universe Selection

Automated ingestion of US & EU equities via EODHD (the canonical data provider). The S&P 500 universe is seeded; the full set populates once the EODHD bulk subscription is enabled, filtered for institutional-grade liquidity (ADV × Price > $2M).

22. SEPA Filter (Trend Template)

Rigid Phase 2 Uptrend verification per Minervini's rules: Price > SMA 50 > SMA 150 > SMA 200, with SMA 200 rising for at least 1 month. The stock must be within 25% of its 52-week high and at least 30% above its 52-week low. If it fails the template, it's instantly marked with a red X.

33. CAN SLIM Analysis

Focus on 'C' (Current Quarterly EPS > 25% YoY), 'A' (Annual Growth stability), and 'L' (Relative Strength Rating > 85, top 1% of the market). For EU stocks lacking quarterly granularity, we apply a graceful fallback with Sales Growth > 20% and ROE > 15%.

Note: the full-universe quarterly earnings populate with the EODHD bulk subscription; seeded names already carry real point-in-time EPS from EODHD — no synthetic data.

44. VCP Engine (Volatility Contraction)

Proprietary geometric detection of Institutional Footprints on the daily chart: fractal swing pivots identify successive base contractions of decreasing depth (volatility contraction), with volume dry-up versus the 50-day average and a Stage-2 trend gate. When confirmed, a Pivot Point (top of the final contraction) and a Stop Loss are computed algorithmically.

55. Iridium AI War Room

The finalists land on the Dashboard ready for human-in-the-loop validation. In the War Room, the user inspects the interactive chart (Lightweight Charts), verifies the KPIs, and the AI Coach assists with setup assessment and position sizing using the strict rule: 1% Account Risk = Stop Loss Distance × Number of Shares.

System 2 · Automated systems

The Bensdorp Suite — 7 automated systems

A faithful implementation of Laurens Bensdorp's seven systems (Automated Stock Trading Systems, Book 2): uncorrelated strategies that work together as a single portfolio, with fixed rules and parameters taken from the book — never invented.

1Trend-following (long)

Follow long-term uptrends on high-momentum or low-volatility stocks, staying in the position as long as the trend holds.

2Mean-reversion (long)

Buy temporary weakness in rising stocks — sell-offs and pullbacks with a high probability of rebound — with exits at targets defined in advance.

3Short systems

Bearish strategies on short-term excesses. Today they are watch-only: monitored and measured, with no capital allocated.

4Backtests and data

Scanning and historical backtests run on deterministic rules. Until the market-data subscription is active, the suite runs on a demonstration universe and switches to real data automatically, with no code changes.

Honesty

Transparency and current state

What is live today and what depends on the data being switched on.

No automatic orders

The tools rank, time and simulate. Execution stays with the user, from their own broker.

No invented data

We never show figures we can't compute from real data. Where coverage is partial, we say so.

Expanding coverage

Alpha Seeker's full universe and the Bensdorp Suite's market data switch on with the EODHD data subscription; today a demonstration subset is running.