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TACTICS — The Pride’s Strategic Command Center

This NEW page is dedicated to The Pride — our community of traders who stand together, think together, and profit together. Here you’ll find the methods and strategic insights that help us use the The Green Lion Blast Sheets with precision and confidence. As a Pride, we organize, analyze, and execute with purpose. Below, feel free to ask a question that could benefit everyone or contribute an investment strategy that you believe other members may profit from. Iron sharpens iron — and together, we win. (This page will be updated as worthy subjects are considered.)

Q:

How do The Green Lions Quartiles differ from Bollinger Bands?

A:

Bollinger Bands are built on a simple idea — they take the last 20 trading days, calculate the sample standard deviation, and place bands ± 2 deviations around a 20-day moving average. That means Bollinger Bands only tell you how volatile PRICE has been — nothing more. They are backward-looking by design and react after volatility expands or contracts.

The Green Lions Quartiles, however, run on a completely different engine. Every plot in a Green Lions Blast Sheet is powered by the Blast Forecast, which is not just a volatility measure — it’s a 190-forecast composite (per plot) built from dozens of micro-trend calculations. Instead of measuring what price did, the Blast Forecast estimates where price is statistically most likely to go.

That’s the core difference:

Bollinger Bands measure yesterday’s volatility.
Green Lions Quartiles measure tomorrow’s probability.

Because the quartile boundaries are derived from 190 forward-looking projections, they form 5 predictive lanes — Levels 1 through 5 — each representing a new layer of probability and directional momentum. These lanes help identify:

Where price is expected to travel.
When a break is meaningful.
When momentum is building before traditional indicators even notice.

In short:

Bollinger Bands react.
The Green Lions Levels 1–5 anticipate.

Tactic: Bear Trigger / Bull Bias

Finding all the Quartile Breaks for approximately 5,000 securities requires a Kings Subscription and any spreadsheet program that can import a CSV file.

First, go to TheGreenLions.com.
Then click Members.
If you’re not already logged in, please do so.
Then click Kings Member Access.
Just below the Blast Sheet image, click CSV to download it.
Then import it into your favorite spreadsheet.

This is a Bull/Call strategy, built around the Break, Bear Trigger, and Bull Bias signals to help identify upward momentum. No strategy is foolproof, but with the right knowledge we greatly increase our odds of success. Once a security breaks outside its quartile range, it usually takes anywhere from one day to two weeks to snap back inside the range. However, if major news permanently changes the trajectory of that security, this tactic can fail—unless you combine it with a supporting ratio tactic to balance the risk. Contrarian investors may choose to play the opposite direction, but they do so entirely at their own risk.

Now review the video below as an example to help target the most probable stocks using the Bear Trigger / Bull Bias tactic.

Q:

How effective is it REALLY compared to other indicators and systems?

The Green Lions Trigger Method is fundamentally different because:

It uses forecast-derived probability windows.
Only signals breaks when price is doing something statistically unusual.
Snapback probability is very high in normal markets.
It directly measures investor psychology through deviation.

This is why you keep seeing it hit the Q1–Close–Q3 balance repeatedly on long-term charts like SPY.

“The Green Lions Trigger Method is a deviation-based system.
Instead of measuring volatility like Bollinger Bands or trends like Ichimoku, it measures when price breaks through a forecast line that’s built from 190 micro-forecasts.

When price breaks out of that projected quartile range, it usually snaps back within one day to two weeks—unless major news permanently changes the trajectory.
So the Green Lions triggers aren’t guesses—they’re statistical alerts that price is doing something abnormal and usually temporary.”

Tactic: Power Magnitude Ratios

Power Magnitude Ratios measure the true strength behind bullish and bearish pressure by comparing the total projected distances of each side. These distances—called the Bull Magnitude and Bear Magnitude—are calculated from the full Blast Forecast range based on 190 proprietary projections.

How the Decimal Ratio Is Created

The Decimal Ratio is created using the formula: Bull Magnitude ÷ Bear Magnitude.

This decimal shows how strong the bullish force is compared to the bearish force.

Nearest Single-Digit Fraction Ratio

After the decimal is created, it is converted into a single-digit fraction, which means one digit over one digit. These are the only possible single-digit fractions:

1/9, 1/8, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 2/9, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 3/7, 4/9, 1/2, 5/9, 4/7, 3/5, 5/8, 2/3, 5/7, 3/4, 7/9, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, 8/9, 1/1, 9/8, 8/7, 7/6, 6/5, 5/4, 9/7, 4/3, 7/5, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3, 7/4, 9/5, 2/1, 9/4, 7/3, 5/2, 8/3, 3/1, 7/2, 4/1, 9/2, 5/1, 6/1, 7/1, 8/1, 9/1.

The system selects the single-digit fraction that is closest to the decimal value. This becomes the Nearest Single-Digit Fraction Ratio.

Example: If the Decimal Ratio is 0.64, the nearest single-digit fraction is 2/3 (because 2 ÷ 3 ≈ 0.666).

Ceiling Single-Digit Fraction Ratio

A second simplified form is created by rounding upward toward the stronger side of the ratio. This is called the Ceiling Single-Digit Fraction Ratio. Using the same decimal example of 0.64:

Nearest Fraction = 2/3
Ceiling Fraction = 1/2

The ceiling version always pushes upward toward whole digits to show the “upper bound” of power.

Why This Matters

These reduced ratios give traders an instant visual of which side has more projected force. If the Bear Magnitude is much larger than the Bull Magnitude, the ratios will lean toward the bearish side, signaling stronger downward pressure. Power Magnitude Ratios help members of The Pride quickly read imbalance, confirm directional bias, and strengthen decisions when combined with Trigger Breaks and Quartile behavior.

For Option Traders

Option traders can use Power Magnitude Ratios to choose the best option structure based on the projected imbalance:

1. Ratio Straddle or Ratio Strangle

When one side shows significantly more power, traders may build a ratio straddle or ratio strangle, weighting contracts or strike spreads toward the favored direction.
If unexpected news pushes the security in the opposite direction, the ratio structure may provide full or partial hedge protection, reducing the impact of an unfavorable move.

2. Directional Straight Calls or Puts

If the ratios clearly favor one side, traders can choose a straight call or straight put in the direction of the stronger magnitude, but there will be no hedge protection.

3. Contrarian Traders

Contrarian traders may choose to trade against the favored direction, using the ratios to identify where they believe the market may be temporarily overextended.

Power Magnitude Ratios provide an added level of confidence for option strategies by showing which side has more projected distance and force, allowing traders to match their option position to the expected direction while potentially benefiting from built-in ratio protection during unexpected news events.