Karim Pirani
Stock trading veteran. Point & Figure specialist. The mind who turned $10,000 into $1,074,475 in exactly 6 months — every trade called publicly before execution.
market signals
in 6 months
before execution
Ever.
An Optimist Who Only
Bets on the Upside
Karim Pirani has been reading stock charts for over 35 years — long before algorithmic trading, long before machine learning, long before anyone was talking about AI-powered screeners. His edge was built the old-fashioned way: sitting with charts, learning to see patterns that others missed, and developing the patience to wait for the setup to fully form before acting.
An optimist by nature, Karim has never shorted a stock. Not once. His entire methodology is built around one question: which stocks are coiling to move up? OpusEngine™ has been trained exclusively to answer that question. It does not look for stocks to short, does not issue bearish signals, and does not benefit from market downturns. If the market isn't presenting high-conviction bullish setups — OpusEngine™ stays silent.
"After 35 years of reading P&F charts along with other market signals, you develop a feel for which setups have genuine conviction behind them and which ones are noise. OpusEngine™ is that instinct, structured. When I see a pick that clears every layer of my methodology honed over 35+ years, I have very high confidence. When I don't — I won't share a pick for the sake of sharing. That patience is the edge."
— Karim Pirani, Founder & Architect of OpusEngine™P&F First.
Everything Else Confirms.
Karim is primarily a Point & Figure chart reader — a discipline that strips away time and focuses purely on price movement. P&F charts filter out the noise that confuses most technical analysts and reveal the underlying supply and demand dynamics of a stock with unusual clarity. Over 35+ years, Karim has developed an intuitive mastery of P&F patterns that forms the foundation of every trade decision he makes.
But P&F alone is not the complete picture. Karim layers additional signals on top of the structural P&F analysis to sharpen conviction and filter out false positives. Every signal below must support the thesis before a pick qualifies:
All of these signals are factored into a sophisticated and proprietary scoring methodology encoded in OpusEngine™. The methodology stays proprietary. You get the output.
$10,000 to $1,074,475.
In Exactly 6 Months.
In January 2013, Karim launched a public trading experiment on Seeking Alpha — one of the world's most respected financial publishing platforms — called Options2Wealth. The rules were simple and unforgiving: every single trade idea had to be posted on the blog before execution. No exceptions. Every post was timestamped by Seeking Alpha's platform. There was no way to go back and claim a trade after the fact.
1. Every trade idea posted publicly before execution. Timestamped by Seeking Alpha. Impossible to reverse-engineer or cherry-pick. 2. Every chart, every analysis, every rationale — documented. Readers could see exactly why Karim expected a breakout before the stock moved. 3. Six months. Starting capital: $10,000. No leverage exceptions, no hidden accounts, no post-hoc adjustments. The public record is the record.
The experiment used options on stocks that Karim's methodology identified as high-conviction breakout candidates. Each blog post included Point & Figure charts, candlestick charts, and a detailed explanation of the setup — why the stock was coiling, what signals were converging, and what the expected move looked like.
"Sprint: The Most Beautiful Cup & Handle
Pattern Ever"
On Sunday evening, February 17, 2013 — before markets opened Tuesday — Karim published one of the most memorable posts of the Options2Wealth experiment. He had been following Sprint since December 2012, when he first checked its Point & Figure chart after reading a bullish analysis elsewhere. The P&F pattern looked compelling. Then he pulled up its 3-year weekly candlestick chart.
"What I saw was a Cup and Handle pattern that was more perfectly formed than any I personally have ever seen in my 20 years of stock picking."
Karim had already been building a position in Sprint May $6 calls for 6+ weeks. On the night of February 17th, he announced publicly that he would substantially increase his position Tuesday morning — buying 337 additional contracts to bring the Options2Wealth portfolio to 500 contracts total. He also called the exact P&F breakout level: "When the stock price prints $6.50, it will be the break of a double top on Sprint's Point & Figure chart."
Sprint didn't move immediately. For weeks it tested Karim's patience, forming a sloping handle. He held. Then it broke out exactly as the chart predicted — confirming both the Cup & Handle pattern and the P&F double top breakout simultaneously. The trade made a significant contribution to pushing the Options2Wealth portfolio past $1,000,000.
But Sprint was just one of many. The Options2Wealth portfolio reached $1,074,475 from dozens of documented, timestamped, publicly-called trades across the 6-month experiment — not from a single lucky bet. The consistency of the methodology across multiple trades is what makes the record meaningful.
One important detail: The 6-month timeframe was planned and committed to publicly on Day 1 — December 30th, 2012. It was not a sudden decision to close. By May 2013, the portfolio had already crossed $1,000,000 — one month early. Karim's wife and friends suggested closing then to lock in the impressive result. He turned them down and continued trading the same disciplined way, without shifting to a defensive posture. On June 28, 2013 — the last trading day of June, exactly as committed on Day 1 — he closed the experiment. Final value: $1,074,475.06. View Final Tally Post ↗
What most people don't know is that while Options2Wealth was running publicly on Seeking Alpha, Karim was simultaneously managing a real client account at Charles Schwab — for a close friend who was going through serious financial hardship and needed real results, not a demonstration. That account started four weeks before O2W launched, was traded using the same methodology, and experienced a nearly identical parabolic ride over the same period.
The client needed to be more conservative than O2W — he required liquidity to keep his business afloat, and at times withdrew significant sums for that purpose. Even so, the account grew from under $15,000 to over $752,000 in the same seven-month window — before withdrawals for business expenses.
When O2W concluded and drew attention, a professional fact-checker and ghost writer flew in from Canada to verify the track record in person. He sat with Karim's client at a Starbucks for two hours. The client voluntarily brought his actual paper Charles Schwab statements to that meeting and walked him through everything Karim had accomplished — not just for the O2W blog, but for him personally, with real money, at a real regulated brokerage.
The fact-checker came away a believer. At the time, Karim was simultaneously managing his own TD Ameritrade portfolio, his client's Schwab account, the Options2Wealth public blog, and his startup SafeList Ventures — all at the same time. The O2W demonstration portfolio tracked the same methodology on a standardized $10,000 starting balance. The real-money results tell the same story.
Charles Schwab brokerage statements documenting this client account are available to verified institutional inquiries and members of the press upon request.
As the experiment progressed, followers began to understand the value of his transparency. Some started piggy-backing on the trades — buying the same options Karim was buying, after seeing his public analysis before execution. They too made significant returns. By the time Karim closed the experiment, readers were beseeching him not to stop.
"Every post I made on Options2Wealth included the P&F chart, the candlestick chart, my complete analysis, and exactly why I expected a breakout — before I made a single trade. The timestamp is the proof. There is nothing to cherry-pick because everything was called in sequence, in public, in real time."
— Karim PiraniAll posts referenced on this page were copied directly from Seeking Alpha and reproduced here with their original publication dates. The posts remain accessible on Seeking Alpha for independent verification. A complete printed archive of every post is also privately maintained. The record stands.
OpusEngine™
In Real Time. Before It Existed.
On April 22nd, 2013 — three days before SunPower made its major breakout — Karim published a detailed pre-breakout analysis on Seeking Alpha. This post is perhaps the most complete demonstration of what would become OpusEngine™ methodology in the entire archive. Every signal layer documented simultaneously, before the stock moved.
P&F: Approaching BRL. Pierce target: $11.50. Double Top confirmation: $12.00. Price target: $23 within 2 months.
RSI: Below 50 — room to run. MACD: Oversold. Bollinger Bands: Converging for a pincer move.
Fundamentals: Japan solar forecast doubling to 6.1–9.4GW; Saudi Arabia $110B solar program imminent; SPWR analyst meeting in May.
Three days later, SPWR broke out exactly as described. Volume 2x normal. Stock up 10%+ in a single day. BRL pierce and Double Top breakout confirmed simultaneously.
In Karim's own words after the breakout: "Those who don't believe in technical analysis and only subscribe to fundamental analysis could not have seen this move coming, because the company's fundamentals have yet to catch up with today's trend reversal signal. Only those who were paying close attention to SPWR stock's technical moves were able to take advantage of today's move, which was telegraphed to geeks like me way in advance."
That paragraph is the entire philosophy of OpusEngine™ — written in 2013, before the product existed.
Real People.
Real Words. Real Returns.
These are real comments from Options2Wealth followers on Seeking Alpha — timestamped, publicly posted, unedited. Karim never solicited a single testimonial. These came organically from people who followed a public blog and made their own investment decisions.
All comments above are publicly posted on Seeking Alpha with original timestamps. Unedited and unsolicited. These are real people who followed a public blog and made their own investment decisions.
The Giver.
Not Just The Trader.
After the Options2Wealth experiment ended, followers were beseeching Karim to continue. Having managed money professionally and advised clients for fees, he had no interest in returning to that model. He preferred to teach the "how".
In January 2014, Karim recommended Adam Grant's book Give and Take to his followers. In February 2014, he announced a new direction: a private newsletter, invitation-only, completely free. The only ask: donate a percentage of trading profits to a charity of your choice through his DonorNation.org platform.
"The newsletter will only be available by invitation and only to those who are 'Givers.' Instead of charging a fee, I only ask of those who receive my newsletter to donate, every quarter, a percentage of their adjusted profits to a non-profit of their choice through my DonorNation.org platform."
— Karim Pirani, February 8, 2014The response: 70 comments, followers from around the world pledging 15%–30% of their profits to charity. A doctor whose foundation helped children with cancer. An engineer who taught kids. Someone who left his job and moved to Guatemala to do charity work. Someone building a house for his wife's grandmother in Thailand. All drawn together by a free trading blog that asked nothing in return.
A Decade of
Documented Market Calls
The Options2Wealth experiment was not an isolated event. It was part of a consistent pattern of public, timestamped market calls spanning over a decade — each one documented before the move, each one verifiable.
* All prices reflect pre-split figures. Apple executed a 7-for-1 split (June 2014) and a 4-for-1 split (August 2020). Split-adjusted: $440 entry ≈ $15.71 · $700+ target ≈ $25.00.
The thread running through every call: charts first, fear as a contrarian indicator, patience to wait for the setup, and the conviction to go public before the move.
Systematizing
35 Years of Instinct
The Options2Wealth experiment proved something Karim had always believed: that a disciplined, repeatable methodology applied consistently across multiple setups — documented transparently — could generate extraordinary returns. The question was how to systematize that methodology so it could scan thousands of stocks simultaneously, not just the handful a human analyst could monitor at once.
OpusEngine™ is the answer to that question. It encodes 35+ years of pattern recognition, signal layering, and conviction scoring into an automated screening engine that scans the Russell 2000 and S&P 500 — approximately 2,500 stocks — and surfaces only the setups that meet Karim's very high conviction standard.
The same discipline that governed Options2Wealth governs OpusEngine™ today: if the conviction isn't there, the signal isn't issued. OpusEngine™ doesn't manufacture picks to fill a quota. It finds them when the market presents them — and stays silent when it doesn't.
The Cup & Handle pattern that Karim identified on Sprint in 2013 — "the most beautiful Cup & Handle chart I have ever seen" — is built into OpusEngine™ as one of the highest-conviction signals in the entire library. When OpusEngine™ identifies a Cup & Handle today, it is drawing on the same 35+ years of pattern recognition that called Sprint before it broke out.
35+ Years.
One Methodology.
* Pre-split price. Apple executed a 7-for-1 split (June 2014) and a 4-for-1 split (August 2020). Split-adjusted entry ≈ $15.71.
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In 2013, Karim Pirani publicly documented every trade before execution on Seeking Alpha, turning $10,000 into over $1 million in six months. OpusSignals.com, launching July 4, 2026, codifies that same methodology into an automated signal service.
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Karim Pirani
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“Thirteen years ago I ran a public trading experiment where every trade was published before execution. Today I'm using that same methodology as the foundation for a platform built on the idea that trust should be earned — not demanded.”
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