Just came across some interesting stuff about Jack Kellogg, this 25-year-old trader who's been making waves in the US markets. Most people know his name from news coverage, but actual strategy details? Pretty rare to find. Anyway, he broke down two solid approaches in an interview that are worth paying attention to.

His trading journey hasn't been a straight line—serious health issues, blown accounts, survived both the 2021 bull run chaos and the brutal 2022 bear market. But here's what's interesting: his system got simpler and more stable over time, not more complex. His account kept compounding exponentially. He has this saying I kind of like: Keep it simple, keep it stupid.

So let's talk strategy. Kellogg's breakthrough approach uses the weekly and daily charts of the S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100 ETF to gauge the macro trend. His logic is straightforward—if these indices have been trending up for the past month and hit new highs in the last week or two, that's a clean setup for breakouts. Once he enters, he's not scalping intraday; he's holding for days or longer.

He understands that markets are cyclical and driven by trader psychology. When prices rise, optimism compounds until greed peaks. Rather than trying to catch the absolute top, Kellogg prefers entering somewhere in the middle of that upward move.

Before pulling the trigger, he scans platforms like Stocks To Trade, Finviz, and TradingView for the day's biggest gainers. Then he filters for two critical factors: massive trading volume and strong price action. This matters because it shows the stock is actually moving with real participation. He avoids those low-volume anomalies—like a stock up 300% on only $500K volume. Those are manipulation traps with poor liquidity that'll wreck your entries and exits.

He's hunting for stocks with hundreds of millions or even billions in daily volume, up 50-100% in a short window. Those go on his watchlist. Then he checks price action over the past two or three weeks. If they're not holding new highs or they've broken key support levels, he passes. Next, he digs into the news to find the catalyst driving the move and estimate how long it might sustain.

Take the Blue Water Vaccines example from July 27—stock hit a new daily high on monkeypox vaccine development news. But here's his take: drug-related catalysts are complex and long-cycle plays. That kind of news creates temporary spikes, and if you do enter, you need to take profits quickly. Once you've locked in instant gains, he moves his stop-loss up to entry price to protect capital. If the catalyst is broader—regulatory approval, new market opportunities, major events—then he watches price behavior more carefully for higher-probability patterns.

Kellogg leans heavily on his breakthrough strategy: after a one or two-day surge, he wants to see price approaching the high or breaking through resistance on increased volume. When the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 daily charts look choppy, he switches to intraday trading instead.

Here's where the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) comes in—it blends volume and price to show the true market average. Kellogg set himself a rule: never go long above the VWAP, never go short below it. He also uses VWAP to exit. If he shorts at $9 and VWAP is at $7, that's his exit or profit-lock level.

Volume spikes tell him something too. Large volume near the day's high or at resistance zones? That's when he'll short—lots of people chasing, lots on the wrong side of the trade. He also watches how long price stays at certain levels. Thirty minutes to an hour at a specific price point? That resistance is real.

Nothing revolutionary here, but the discipline and simplicity are what stand out about how Kellogg approaches markets. No complex systems, just solid risk management and reading what the market's actually doing.