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Setups – Entry

Overview​

The Setups – Entry profile highlights top AI-verified setups where the current price is sitting directly on a key support or resistance level. These setups often mark ideal entry zones for potential breakouts, reversals, or confirmation trades. Every result is filtered for technical relevance and directional bias using MarketAlpha’s AI models.

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This profile is updated in real time and applies filters automatically to show setups with price currently testing major structural levels. It can be used across all market sessions.

Strategy Focus​

  • Surface setups where price is currently sitting at a key support or resistance zone
  • Combine structural positioning with real-time AI direction, risk/reward, and pattern signals
  • Focus on early entries for breakouts, pullbacks, or failed breakdown setups
  • Align entries with strong sector or theme momentum using group strength metrics
  • Use pre-filtered price-level logic to catch timing-sensitive setups at decision points
  • Combine chart structure with volume and fundamentals to support high-conviction planning

Filters Applied​

The following filters are applied automatically in this profile:

  • Top Alpha Setup: Ensures the setup is flagged by MarketAlpha’s AI engine as one of the day’s top directional opportunities. These setups are selected based on a multi-factor score involving price action, structure, group leadership, volume, and fundamentals.
  • Price At Resistance/Support: Shows only tickers where the last traded price is sitting directly on a known resistance or support level. This filter isolates setups at inflection zones — ideal for planning entries near decision points like breakout, bounce, or rejection levels.

These combined filters focus the profile on real-time setups with structure-aligned entry potential, already validated by MarketAlpha’s AI.

Metrics Used​

AI Strategy and Setup Quality​

  • AI - Alpha Strategy: Displays long or short directional bias for the setup based on current structure
  • AI - Risk/Reward: Estimates stop and target zones to highlight setups with clear risk and potential upside
  • AI - Path to Target: Shows how many resistance or support zones remain between price and target
  • Top Alpha Setup: Marks setups that pass all technical, fundamental, and structural criteria within the MarketAlpha engine

Price Structure and Entry Relevance​

  • Price At Resistance/Support: Indicates whether the last traded price is currently sitting at a resistance or support level — helps identify actionable entries where momentum or rejection can occur
  • Change Pre Market (%): Captures pre-market price shifts to detect early directional bias
  • Change From Close (%): Measures intraday strength or weakness relative to the previous session’s close
  • RSI Divergence 14 Days: Highlights momentum weakening or reversal signals at key levels
  • Universal Pattern Detection: Flags setups with clean, directionally aligned pattern signals
  • Tight Range: Detects price compression near structure, often preceding explosive moves

Volume, Liquidity, and Activity​

  • Volume All Hours: Total shares traded across all sessions, supporting liquidity assessment
  • Relative Volume: Detects volume spikes relative to historical norms for confirmation
  • Dollar Volume Rank: Sorts tickers by capital flow to ensure actionable visibility

Sector and Theme Context​

  • Industry Rating 1 Day, Theme Rating 1 Day: Measure intraday group strength for sector-aligned trades
  • Industry Rating 1 Year, Theme Rating 1 Year: Highlight setups supported by long-term leadership
  • Relative Strength 1 Day, Relative Strength 1 Year: Show short- and long-term price performance trends

Fundamentals and Timing​

  • MarketAlpha Rating: Composite metric reflecting broad strength across price, group, and fundamentals
  • EPS Rating, Sales Rating, Profit Rating: Identify fundamentally strong companies more likely to follow through
  • Accumulation/Distribution Score: Detects recent institutional positioning over the past quarter
  • 52 Week High (%): Shows how close the ticker is to its yearly high, useful for breakout potential
  • Next Earnings In Days: Displays proximity to earnings, helping manage entry timing around events

Default Sorting Logic​

Results are sorted by Dollar Volume Rank (ascending). This prioritizes the most active, liquid setups that are structurally aligned and most likely to generate momentum around key levels.

Practical Use Cases​

  • Scan for entries at support or resistance to prepare for breakout, retest, or rejection setups
  • Prioritize setups with clean structural timing and AI strategy confirmation
  • Build a chart-based entry workflow by focusing on setups interacting with key zones
  • Open all results in Multi-Charts to visually confirm setups or add candidates to your watchlist
  • Quickly identify candidates for pullback or breakout strategies without manual filtering
  • Layer group strength or earnings filters for setups that align structurally and thematically