Influential Entrepreneurs with Mike Saunders, MBA - Interview with Kevin Steuer, Managing Partner with Stock TA

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

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Welcome to influential entrepreneurs, bringing you interviews with elite business leaders and experts, sharing tips and strategies for elevating your business to the next level. Here's your host, Mike Saunders. Hello and welcome to this episode of influential entrepreneurs. This is Mike Saunders, the authority positioning coach. Today we have with us Kevin Stewart, who's a managing partner with Stock TA. Kevin, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me. Hey, I'm looking forward to chatting with you because I know that you get into the technical side of things.

So we want to dive into what you're doing and now you're supporting people with your tool. But give us a little bit of your background and story. And how did you get into the industry? Yeah, I've always been an investor, just, you know, trader, been doing it for a while. And I was doing some consulting work and I got introduced to the site. I'm not the original owner of the site. The site was developed, I believe, in like 1999, 2000. And I got to know the original owner and he decided he didn't want to do it anymore.

So I bought it because I was a user for probably three or four years and it just really helped my trading style. And I bought the site. And then I went back through with modern day AI and I found some good tech people to help me. And we basically redid the whole site. We made it more accurate. And I've used it now for five plus years. And it's just been a great tool. My toolbox to help me with investing.

Great. So just the the sharper knife in the in the drawer that does things better. You mentioned the magic two letters AI. So let's dive into that. You know, that's what Stock TA does. But I'm sure you have seen over the decades that trading has changed. What have you seen trading changing? And is it only the AI aspect? Or are there other things that go into how things have changed? That's a great question. No, trains trains a lot. lot the past, I'd say five, six years. I think the zero-day expiration options have really, you know, changed the liquidity of the market, but also the leverage in the market. And I was kind of shocked. About two years ago, I saw an article that J.P. Morgan put out, and they estimated

that 90% of all U.S. equity volume was driven by computers and computers used algorithms. So that That stat just blew my mind. And then once I kind of started to process a little more and kind of peel back the onion a little more, I figured like, you know, I figured out real quick that that's why humans aren't the greatest that investing because humans, you know, anytime you have money involved, you get emotional about it. And I think retail trading, I think, has a big misconception. And that's kind of, that's what we're trying to do and where we're trying to help fill that void is I think a lot of retail traders think like, oh, I'm trading. it's Mike and he's selling Tesla and I'm buying Tesla and that's not the game at all anymore. The game now is it's driven by bigger institutions, whether that's hedge funds, family offices, retirement funds, whatever.

They're driving a lot of volume and they all have their own algorithm, right? And it's gotten very sophisticated. And if you don't have an edge and you're just trading on a narrative, you're trading on what you see on the news, a lot of times you're going to lose. So our whole thing is numbers over narrative. And we've developed this algorithm that spits out, you know, a trend score. So you can see if something's bullish or bearish. You can see if the trend score is increasing or decreasing.

So that's what we call, you know, signal strength. If a stock is bullish and it's increasing on trend strength, it's usually going up. So that's something you want to be long. And then if you're a trader who likes to take more risk and you like the short stuff, you want to look at stuff that's losing signal strength. And what we found is a lot of retail traders, they either do. don't have a process or they don't have access to a tool like this. So what we've done is, you know, we've updated this.

We've upgraded it in all kinds of different ways. And it's free for retail to use. And we're basically trying to give Main Street an algorithm to fight back against Wall Street, if that makes sense. Yeah. So is this, when I hear you say, you know, zero day expiration, I think day traders. And I know that you're not only for day traders, but would there be use cases for day traders as well as people that just want to know, I want to get into a good ETF and sit tight for many, many days or months or quarters? Where is the benefit of your users? Do you have a specific window that really works better for one versus the other?

So we have all kinds of different traders. We had 87,000 individual users last year. And what we found interesting is we asked people to log. in and just kind of fill out a short survey so we could kind of figure out what kind of trader we have. And we actually have a mix of people. So we have some, I would say a small portion are day traders than a bigger portion. We have options traders.

So they're looking at, you know, could be whatever their time frame is on their calls or puts. And then I would say majority of our traders, our swing traders, which is what I am. And those are people kind of, you know, basically trying to trade the trend. or the momentum, however you want to say it, but people who are, you know, not buying hold, but trying to, you know, minimize their risk to the downside and make asymmetric bets to the upside.

And they might be, you know, I know we don't need to dive into deep on that, but a swing trader might be more of a three to five day, seven day kind of a time frame versus, you know, in one hour and out 10 minutes later. Yep. And that's a great thing. I mean, I'm a swing trader myself.

There are some positions I've opened in November And some people says, oh, that would make you more of a longer term. Not necessarily. Like if the trend holds and it's going up, I'm going to ride that trend up. And whenever that trend ends and I see exhaustion in it or the signal starts to tell me, hey, this is due for a pullback. That's when I get out. So listening to you say those things makes me think this from a, you know, consumer standpoint.

Do I need to have the framework and the system in place? and then I come in and overlay your software or am I able to log into your software and go, I've heard about swing trading. Tell me how I should look at it and give me some recommendations. And okay, for this batch of stocks or options, I should be in this day, out that day. Watch for this red, yellow, green. You know what I'm saying? Like, is yours like an all in one or do I need to know everything?

And then your tool just kind of gives me the polish that I can execute on the system that I already have in place. It's a little bit of both. I would say more of our users are more experienced and have a system for trading. But we have a lot of how-to videos on our YouTube page. And we have a really great stock screener that shows stocks that are bullish or very bullish or breaking out. Or if you're someone who trades a MACD crossover or a 520 EMA crossover, whatever that may be, we have different screens built in that you can search that. So I think, can answer your question, I think people need to have a, you know, a basic knowledge of the market and have some form of strategy. I just think we, you know, I think our algorithm allows them to elevate their game a little higher and play at a higher, higher level, faster pace if that's what they're looking to do.

Yep. Yeah, that's a good point. Kind of like, you know, the momentum is already happening, but now you're going to give them a little bit of, you know, rocket fuel. Yep. That's the goal. I mean, we're trying to help people. Like, we're not trying to be captain stock picker. Like, I'm not trying to get on Twitter every day or, you know, whatever platform and say,

hey, buy, you know, buy Dell today or buy this today. Like, we're trying to give people another tool in their toolbox to trade, you know, however they want to trade. And everyone, you know, I think to be a good trader, I think you need to match your trading style with your personality. So everybody's different. Everybody has a different amount of money to play with. Everybody has different risk tolerance, a different time frame.

So that's where I think our platform's really cool is we have a lot of versatility with all those different things. And we're just giving you another tool to use, you know, to execute trades or even just do research. Like, you know, not every day is a day to buy in the market. Some days it's better just sit and wait. And I think our algorithm does a really good job, you know, picking out those signals and, you know, front running some stuff that goes on with the market. So since we all know that you're not the old. only software out there that does this. There's other softwares.

What does your algorithm do that other platforms don't do? What's your competitive advantage? You know, because there's treating view or think or swim or whatever the case is. What are some of your, you know, edges that you've got that will differentiate yourself? Yeah.

So I think the two main ones are our trend score. That gives you a very high level picture of what's going on with the trend. And we have a sectors page on our website. So you can kind of look at the different sectors of the market. market and get a, you know, kind of a high level snapshot of what's going on. That's, that's where I start every day. And then, you know, the trend score gives you an exact number. So minus one is the most bearish something can be. Plus one is the absolute most bullish something can be. So you're getting a score every day. So it's not, you're not guessing what the trend is. You get an exact score.

And it tells you, you know, exactly where in that timeframe that trade is. Like, if you're early if you're late, like you don't want to chase something that's, you know, starting to lose steam. And then the second part would be, we have a confluence system that nobody else uses. And I've, you know, tried every different kind of website. I've tried, you know, trading's really hard. So I've tried different systems, different setups, trying to figure out, you know, what fits my trading style. And this site ended up actually being it, which is why I bought it. But our, confluence system is really unique. And confluence is just a fancy term. that means where things meet.

And in technical trading, you know, you look for pivot points of where stuff is going to break out to the upside or breakdown or, you know, swing points. However, you know, there's different terms for it. But basically we use confluences where all these different studies that we measure and map meet and the higher the confluence, the more confidence we have in that being, you know, heavy support or heavy resistance or light support or light resistance. So you can kind of look at a trade. and I like to go along stuff that has heavy support for confluence underneath it and not much for heavy resistance overhead.

So those are the asymmetric bets that I like to make. And our algorithm does a really good job, basically interpreting tons of data. Like we have 166 million rows of code. And that measures and maps just about everything you can possibly imagine in a stock. And then it shoots out these really easy numbers to understand for a trend score or confluence. So I think some systems I've used, there's just too much data and it's, you know, analysis paralysis. Like you just get stuck. Where here, you can look at a stock and in a minute you can decide like this is a buy, this is a sell, this is a hold.

Like we make it really easy to interpret all that data because, you know, having data is great. But if you don't know how to put that into action, it doesn't do any good. So what we've tried to do is, you know, take a lot of complexity out of it. And trading is always going to be complex, right? Like people always say, oh, you know, oils up so the stock market's down, right? Like, it's never so simple as this one thing. Like, there is a whole mix of things that you need to measure a map and look at. And no system's perfect.

Like, we don't, you know, we don't hit on 100% of the stocks all the time. But I've had a really good win rate using this system for the last five years. And I think the confluence system gives you a really easy way to understand, kind of how the market is flowing and what the machine's saying. And then it's up to you as an individual, you know, to implement that. But we give you, you know, information you need to try to be an educated trader is what we're, you know, what our goal is. Yeah. Awesome. You know, let's go in a little bit deeper on AI. You mentioned that you use it. Where is it actually improving the results for your users versus just processing data faster? Yeah. So we update.

I'm trying to think of how to say this in a really simple way, but we have a lot of equations, right, that the data measures and maps, and then those all are inputs, and then, you know, the outputs are our trend scores and our confluence system. And basically, we just went through with AI and we figured out what equations are the most accurate and what actually has the most impact on what the final, I would say, prices of. whatever ETF or stock you're trading. And then we used AI to kind of change the weighting of the formula and just to make it more accurate. So, you know, the 2000s version was accurate for, you know, the early 2000s market. But with all these different options and how the market trades now, like we had to change the equation a little bit to make it more current, right?

The market's always changing. It's always adapting. So if you're using the same formula from 20 years ago, you're. go, you might not get the most accurate output. So basically, we had to peel the onion back, went really deep into it, and figured out where we can make adjustments to make this more current to today's market. And we're constantly doing that, too. Like, this isn't, you know, it's not a stagnant product.

Like, we're always improving things. We're always trying to make it more accurate. And we're always trying to adjust to the market. So we've talked a little bit about the types of, you know, swing or day or long term. who as a user who should not use the platform who is it really not built for uh that's a great question i mean we don't use inner day data because we found that's more um inaccurate so what we found and it's kind of hard to explain but what we found is the computers know where where these swing points are whether it's our computer somebody else's algorithm like they're all kind of feeding you know

math is math. So everybody's kind of getting into the same numbers at some point. And what we found is a lot of stocks, especially in a volatile market, the algorithms know where the stops are or that they can guess pretty accurately. So if you're, I would say, an impatient person or a person who can't, you know, sustain a little bit of risk for a short amount of time, like I've seen people get stopped out of stocks, me included, like I've gotten stopped out of stocks in the morning and then in the afternoon, the stock just rips higher. And basically that's a hedge fund or somebody knowing, hey, we're going to run people out of his position at $10.49 because we know everybody's stop is at $10 and $50. And after lunch, that stock will be, you know, $12, $13 and it'll just

keep climbing. And they know how to play those games. So when we were using the interday data, we found out that those confluence numbers weren't as accurate. So we kept it to, you know, we measure all the price points throughout the day, but we, you know, we post just at the end of the day. Like our algorithm runs, you know, for an hour after the market closes and we post stocks at six or seven at night, depending on how volatile the market is. Sometimes our algorithm needs more time. But we've seen people, you know, they get a little nervous and they get stopped out during

the day. And they're like, oh, I wish you would update more during the day. and it's like, no, like our numbers were right. It's just you, you didn't let your process play out. So I guess maybe inpatient people who are trying to exactly time the market, you know, I don't think any platform would be for you because at some point you got to spend more time in the market than trying to time the market. Yeah. Yep.

So let's wrap up with this, Kevin. What are you seeing in the near future for the next few features that you're getting ready to add or launch? And how is that going to give your traders a little bit more ammo? Yeah, we've been doing some refinements to the back end of the stock screen. We've had some requests from users to create some studies or base cases that they find really interesting that, you know, I've talked about my newsletter or on podcasts that would make a more default screen. So we've looked at doing that. And I've been hesitant to do that because, you know, that's how I trade and that might not be how everybody else trade.

So I don't want to put something into the world that works for me but may not work for 50% of the people. But we're trying to build tools around what people are asking for. Like we're getting a ton of feedback on the side. We've had a lot of new users. So we have a lot of great ideas. It's just we're trying to sift through and figure out what ones actually work and what ones are feasible for, you know, a general person to use because we don't want to get. too advanced that when new people use our site, they're just overwhelmed and they can't figure it out. So we do have some stuff coming. We've started to EO interviews. Like we've had a lot of requests

from from different users about, hey, like, you're more in tune with the stock market than I am. Like, what are some companies that you see some, some opportunities? And so we've, we started a YouTube channel with a podcast where we invite companies on where they have some interesting things going, where we allow CEOs to kind of direct their message towards our user base because, you know, there's a lot of stories out there and it's hard to sift through which ones are legit or not. So we're trying to find, you know, the right companies that we see are undervalued to give them a chance to meet our audience. Neat. Sounds great, Kevin. Well, this has been really enlightening. And for someone listening to this, might want to check out more of what your tool can do for them. What's the best way they can learn more and set up an account for themselves?

Yeah, so if you sign up at stockta.com, we're free. We just ask that you create a profile. We use their email just to send your reminders about upcoming CEO calls we have. We have a YouTube channel called StockTA. We also have a substat called StockTA where we post interviews, different articles that we find interesting throughout the week. So if you just give us a fall at one of those three, I think you'll learn a lot. Excellent. Well, Kevin, thank you so much for coming on. It's been a real pleasure. chatting with you. Thanks so much for having me. You've been listening to Influential Entrepreneurs with Mike Saunders. To learn more about the resources mentioned on today's show or listen to past episodes, visit www.com.com.