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Three new trend gauges under every chart Pinned

stage2trader about 11 hours ago

Three new gauges now sit as colored strips beneath the price chart on any stock: Pressure, Buy Risk and TPR. Each answers a different question about a trend, and together they give you a read on a setup in about two seconds.

Pressure tracks the balance of buying and selling over a rolling 20 days — net up-volume against down-volume. Green suggests accumulation, red distribution, and the strip turning red under a rising price is the classic warning that a move is running out of sponsorship.

Buy Risk measures how far price has stretched above its 50-day average: green within 15% of it, yellow from 15 to 25%, orange beyond that, and red once price has closed below the average altogether. It is about entry timing rather than direction — a strong stock 30% above its 50-day is still a strong stock, just a poor place to start a position.

TPR scores the eight trend-template criteria out of 8 — moving-average alignment and slope, position within the 52-week range, and relative strength leadership. A full 8 is green and a textbook uptrend, 6 or 7 is a yellow near-miss, and anything below that says the trend isn't really there yet.

The three pills in the Price History header repeat the current state, and the header tints green only when all three agree — so a stock in a genuine buy zone is visible at a glance without reading the panes at all. Prefer the old layout? Turn the gauges off any time from the chart settings cog, or from your Account page.

A note on where these come from: they are our own interpretation of three indicators publicly associated with Mark Minervini's work, built from the methodology he teaches publicly. The real formulas are proprietary and undocumented, so these are reconstructions rather than licensed copies — useful, but read them as our reading of his ideas, not his actual tools.

Trend gauges are part of the Pro plan, and full history has been backfilled so they work on any date you scroll back to. As always, let us know what you think.

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