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ADVISING ALPHA · PROIssue 9 · October 1, 2026

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Member commentary

Four weeks inside Apex Momentum that a monthly chart cannot show.

In the backtested record, Apex Momentum fell 30.3% between June 30 and July 29 of this year. The S&P 500 total return index fell 2.4% over the same four weeks.

By August 17, the day the quarter closed and the book rebalanced, the same backtested record showed Apex up 12.7% for the quarter that began May 18, against 4.9% for the index.

Both figures describe the same ten stocks. The month end points on the growth chart show a strong June and a weak July, and neither shows how deep the decline went or how fast it came back.

Every Apex figure in this issue is backtested and before fees and taxes. A member mirroring the model would have seen different numbers because of timing, fees and taxes.

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