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Setups – Group Losers Today

Overview​

The Setups – Group Losers Today profile highlights short setups where the stock is part of one of the weakest-performing industry or theme groups in the current session. These are tickers with strong downside alignment, minimal resistance to the target price, and technical confirmation by MarketAlpha's AI. All results meet strict volume, volatility, and structural criteria to ensure the setups are actionable and supported by real market behavior.

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This profile is updated in real time and applies filters automatically to show short-biased setups from the day’s weakest groups, combining volume, structure, and directional alignment.

Strategy Focus​

  • Identify short setups in underperforming industries or themes with strong downside pressure
  • Focus on clean setups with minimal barriers between price and the downside target
  • Prioritize names with confirmed short bias from MarketAlpha’s AI
  • Require strong liquidity and volatility to support smooth execution and trade follow-through
  • Use for tactical entries into group-based weakness and breakdowns
  • Build short watchlists based on real-time group rotation and technical confirmation

Filters Applied​

This profile applies multiple layers of filters to ensure setups meet structural, group-relative, and momentum criteria:

  • Liquidity Rating > 70, ATRP 14D ≥ 0.5, Volatility (Month) ≥ 1: Ensures the stock is actively traded and volatile enough to follow through after breakdowns.
  • Volume All Hours ≥ 50K OR Relative Volume ≥ 2: Filters for sufficient total trading volume or relative activity.
  • AI - Alpha Strategy = Short: Requires a short-biased setup confirmed by MarketAlpha’s AI engine.
  • AI - Risk/Reward ≥ 2, AI - Path to Target ≤ 1: Selects setups with strong downside potential and few barriers remaining to the target.
  • Industry Rating 1 Day ≤ 10 OR Theme Rating 1 Day ≤ 10: Limits results to the weakest 10% of industry or theme groups based on real-time group momentum.

These filters ensure all results are high-probability short setups backed by structure, AI conviction, and group weakness.

Metrics Used​

AI Strategy and Setup Quality​

  • AI - Alpha Strategy: AI-detected short setups based on price behavior and structure
  • AI - Risk/Reward: Calculates downside potential versus stop level based on structural context
  • AI - Path to Target: Counts barriers to the target — only setups with ≤ 1 resistance zone are included

Group and Momentum Context​

  • Industry Rating 1 Day, Theme Rating 1 Day: Confirm that the stock is in one of the session’s weakest-performing groups
  • Relative Strength 1 Day: Reinforces intraday underperformance for added directional conviction
  • Industry Rating 1 Year, Theme Rating 1 Year, Relative Strength 1 Year: Add long-term context to current weakness

Price Action and Breakdown Potential​

  • Change Pre Market (%): Surfaces early signs of downside or weakness
  • Change From Close (%): Measures intraday breakdown strength
  • RSI Divergence 14 Days: Detects potential exhaustion or trend continuation toward the downside
  • Universal Pattern Detection: Surfaces setups with clean bearish pattern alignment
  • Tight Range: Helps identify consolidation prior to breakdowns

Volume and Liquidity​

  • Volume All Hours: Total volume across all sessions for participation confidence
  • Relative Volume: Measures current volume vs typical behavior
  • Dollar Volume Rank: Prioritizes high-activity names suitable for execution

Fundamentals and Timing​

  • MarketAlpha Rating: Blended score capturing overall fundamental and technical quality
  • EPS Rating, Sales Rating, Profit Rating: Contextualize longer-term financial strength or weakness
  • Accumulation/Distribution Score: Tracks institutional flow over the last quarter — fading scores support short setups
  • 52 Week High (%): Helps position within longer-term ranges or breakdown zones
  • Next Earnings In Days: Helps avoid setups near potential catalysts

Default Sorting Logic​

Tickers are sorted by Dollar Volume Rank (ascending) to surface the most actively traded names first. This supports clean execution and idea visibility.

Practical Use Cases​

  • Focus on short setups aligned with group momentum to capture real weakness
  • Identify intraday breakdown candidates within structurally weak groups
  • Combine with pattern and divergence columns to refine short thesis
  • Review candidates in Multi-Charts to validate structure visually
  • Filter out strong or neutral stocks and isolate group-relative laggards
  • Use in daily short setup scans or swing trade planning workflows