Standard Deviation Breakout
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These alerts report each time the stock price moves an integer number of standard deviations from the closing price. These are very similar to the % up/down for the day alerts, but these are based on volatility rather a percentage. For some stocks it is interesting and unusual when they move up by less than 1% from the previous close. Others must move by 2% or more before they are interesting. The user can require higher standards, as described below.
These alerts are slightly different from our other volatility alerts, because these use a more traditional formula for volatility. For most of our alerts we use two weeks worth of volume-weighted, intraday volatility data, and we scale it so that "1" means a typical move for one 15 minute period. These alerts are based on a year's worth of volatility data. Recent data is weighted more heavily than year old data, and the data is scaled so that "1" means a standard deviation for one day.
Alert Info for Standard Deviation Breakout [BBU]
- description = Standard deviation breakout
- direction = +
- keywords = Highs and Lows Single Print
- flip_code =
Standard deviation breakdown [BBD]
- parent_code =