Understanding the 5 Minute Topping Tail Alert

This alert signals the appearance of a topping tail pattern on a traditional 5-minute candlestick chart. Components of a topping tail pattern include:

• a red candle with 3 preceding green or bullish candles

• The last candle has a small real body (the space between the opening and closing prices), which is often red, indicating a bearish candle

• The upper shadow (or tail) of the last candle is typically longer than the lower shadow. The tail typically extends well above the real body

This often suggests that after an uptrend, sellers have stepped in to resist further price increases, indicating a shift from bullish to bearish sentiment.

Default Settings

By default, the 5 minute topping tail alert appears when there is a topping tail pattern on a 5 minute candlestick chart.

Custom Settings

For '5 Minute Topping Tail' alerts, you have the option to use an alert specific filter. This filter is located immediately to the right of the corresponding alert and is always optional. You can decide to leave it blank if you want to receive more alerts, or you can fill it in to restrict the number of alerts you receive. This filter allows you to specify the quality of the alert. When you set a higher number for this filter, you are telling the alerts server to display only alerts that meet a higher quality standard, resulting in fewer alerts being shown.

When setting an alert for '5 Minute Topping Tail', the user can filter these alerts by a grade of how on how closely the stock chart matches the ideal shape of the stock pattern. 0 would mean there was no match. 100 would mean it's an ideal match.

Description Column

The description of the alert will give a more comprehensive breakdown of the alert.

Quality Column

The quality value on a scan using the "5 Minute Topping Tail" represents the grade based on how closely the stock chart matches the ideal shape of the stock pattern. 0% would mean that there was no match at all. Of course, if a stock pattern is this poor a match, then we are unlikely to report an alert. 100% would be an ideal match. Again, this would be an ideal and extreme case. Few if any alerts come close to 100%.