Trade Ideas: Support Forum

[Trade Ideas]

Here is a response from a senior support fellow:

First take a look here:

Alerts History - huge dumper25
Time - 1:31:14 Friday, September 12
Symbol - SC.CAT
Message - Running down extremely quickly: -0.37 in less than one minute.
# - 50

I only saw one with his settings. It was after hours. But it said #50, so there were 49 more that got removed by his filters. I started with his settings, and limited it to the single symbol, “SC.CAT”.

He only selected one type of alert. This type of alert only looks at a 1 minute time frame. He set the alert specific filter to only show him when the stock went down more than $0.25 in a single minute. That only happened once, as shown above, 30 minutes after the close.

I looked at the chart. There were some big dips, but not that quickly. The alerts seem to be correct. There are several ways to get around this.

If he lowers the alert specific filter, he could see more of these short term motions. If he removes the filter completely, he’ll be using our recommended minimum filters. The nice thing about this is that he can see all of the values for the alerts that we generated. He can use these to help pick a better filter in the future.
I also tried longer term alerts.

http://www.trade-ideas.com/History.html?O=40000000000000000000000000000000040000000000000000280000_c0_0&QRDN=0.25&MaxPrice=60&WN=huge+dumper25&SL=xSC.CAT

Sure enough, this gives you more interesting results, including these:
Running down: -1.00 in 12 minutes 34 seconds
Running down: -1.65 in 1 day 18 hours. Confirmed by volume.
Running down: -0.30 in 62 seconds
Running down: -0.78 in 9 minutes 29 seconds

If he really likes the style of the new “running down now” alerts, he might also consider the and similar filters. Set this one to $0.25 and you’ll see everything that has run down at least $0.25 in the last 5 minutes.