Price decreased by at least 1% in the last bar.
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The filter measures the percentage difference between the current close and the close of the immediately preceding 5-minute bar. A 1% drop on a single 5-minute candle is a significant intraday event — for a $100 stock, that is a $1 move in 5 minutes, roughly 12x the typical single-bar move in calm conditions. There are no volume, VWAP, or trend filters layered on top. This is a raw price velocity screen — it detects the event, not the context. The simplicity is intentional: it surfaces any stock meeting the threshold and leaves interpretation to the trader. The 5-minute timeframe makes this sensitive to individual large prints, news catalysts, and stop-loss runs.
A 1% single-bar drop has different implications depending on whether it occurs at the open, midday, or into the close, and whether it breaks a prior level or is intrabar noise. At the open, it may be a gap continuation; midday, it can signal a news event or a technical breakdown; late session, it may reflect forced selling or options pinning. Failure modes: (1) the bar immediately reverses — a single large sell order or algo print that gets absorbed quickly; (2) market-wide dip where every stock drops 1%, making the signal non-selective; (3) pre-market or extended-hours data bleeds into the session, distorting the calculation. Traders who want stronger confirmation pair this signal with volume expansion or a concurrent VWAP break — the ORB 15m + VWAP Breakdown screen combines these conditions. For daily-timeframe momentum drops, see Drop > 5%.
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This screener flags stocks that have declined more than 1% on the current 5-minute bar relative to the prior bar's close. It captures sharp intraday momentum reversals or acceleration events — moments when price moves decisively in a single 5-minute interval. Currently 2 stocks match. Day traders use this as a real-time alert for sudden intraday weakness, often as a trigger to investigate whether a broader sell program has started or a key level has broken. Search phrases: stock dropping 1 percent intraday, 5 minute momentum reversal, intraday price drop screener. For larger moves, see Drop > 5%. For the corresponding upside signal, see Gain > 1%.
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