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Bearish Opening Power Bar Alert (OVO5D)

Find stocks breaking below a bearish first 5-minute power bar in real time with Trade Ideas Streaming Alerts (Scanner). An opening power bar is a large first 5-minute candle that opens near one extreme and closes near the other, with the market showing a matching pattern. The bearish alert fires one tick below the low of that candle.

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Streaming Alerts push each Bearish Opening Power Bar alert on the print that triggers it.

How Trade Ideas finds it: by default, this alert is triggered when the price moves one tick below the low of the opening candle. See Trade Ideas plans and pricing to run it live.

How the Bearish Opening Power Bar alert works

The opening power bar alerts implement a simple but popular trading strategy. They start by looking for a power bar in the stock's first 5 minute candle. To confirm this, the market as a whole needs to have a matching pattern in the first 5 minutes. We report a bearish alert when the price moves one tick below the low of the opening candle.

Bearish opening power bar: a large first 5 minute candle that opens and closes near its ends; the alert comes when price moves one tick below its low

A power bar is defined as a large candle, where the open is near the high or or the low, and so is the close. The position of the close says whether the bar is bullish or bearish. This sets the direction for the entire strategy.

A special thanks to our friend Oliver Velez for sharing this strategy. He teaches this strategy under the title "the five minute trader".

Default settings

Example

By default, this alert is triggered when the price moves one tick below the low of the opening candle. To align with each alert, it's essential to utilize the corresponding time frame on the chart. For instance, this alert is visualized on the 5-minute candlestick chart.

What the alert shows you

The description column of this scan will guide you in determining the optimal placement for your stop loss.

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FAQ

How do I trade the first 5-minute candle power bar?

Turn on the Bearish Opening Power Bar alert (OVO5D) in Trade Ideas Streaming Alerts. By default, this alert is triggered when the price moves one tick below the low of the opening candle.

What is the Bearish Opening Power Bar alert?

An opening power bar is a large first 5-minute candle that opens near one extreme and closes near the other, with the market showing a matching pattern. The bearish alert fires one tick below the low of that candle.

What is the opposite of the Bearish Opening Power Bar alert?

The Bullish Opening Power Bar alert (OVO5U).

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