Show 15-Minute Metadata Detail

The purpose of this page is to describe the contents of each column from the Show 15-Minute Metadata detail report. This is a report that contains daily historical stock metadata divided into 15-minute segments for companies featured on the Bulls-with-Bears page.

You’ll also find a section devoted to the topic of how market-timing strategies can be used, the results of which are displayed in the report.

Click Here for the explanation of Simple Strategies including examples on how to use stock metadata found in the Show 15-Minute Metadata report to improve your investing and trading skills.

Description of Report Columns

Simple Strategies

At some point in time you may have heard of people being able to use market timing to their advantage to profit from the daily fluctuations in the price of a stock. But you never hear exactly how they do it.

You look around for clues but you never seem to see any examples of how it can be done. You want to get your money working for you but you don’t really know where to start. For the lack of better terms, you want the right strategy to follow.

Many stock market players constantly try to time their trades and make the most money possible from their transactions. The use of metadata can be a valuable tool to help achieve that goal.

The following screen shots extracted from the Show 15-Minute Metadata report will be used to explain two of the strategies that use metadata. The idea is to take many smaller profits during the day as opposed to that large profit that rarely happens.

Click Here to learn to use the strategy for a long (buy) position.
Click Here for to learn to use the strategy for a short (sell short) position.

This type of strategy works best with stocks whose prices often fluctuate up and down by at least a certain amount during the day. Just how much money can be made in a day depends on the following factors:

• Share price
• Funds available for investing or trading
• Amount of commissions paid to execute the trade
• Number of times trades are executed during the day, and
• Number of times the strategy can be used during the day.

Using this strategy, one can take either a long position in a stock, a short position in a stock, or even both long and short positions in a stock. As with all stock transactions, there is risk involved. Fortunately, risk mitigation is one of the techniques used as part of this strategy.

Here’s how the strategy works when taking a long position. For this example, that will mean buying 1000 shares of company X. Risk is controlled when shares are only bought when the low price (PL) goes lower than the lowest price of the previous 15-minute period (PPL).

Look at the Low column in the screen image below. You’ll notice that at $22.63, the PL is lower than the lowest price of the previous 15-minute PPL ($22.70).

So if the shares were purchased anywhere from $22.63 to $22.69, they could be sold in the current 15-minute period at any price up to the current Highest (CH) price of 22.90 for the current 15-minute period.

If trades are executed online and the commission charges are $10 per transaction, the AMC (Amount Meeting Criteria) value shows a potential profit that can be as much as $250.

Referring to the screen image below, the formula used to calculate the potential outcome (profit or loss) for this trade is:

Click Here for field content descriptions of all columns in the Long Position section of the Show 15-Minute Metadata report.

Now here’s how the strategy works when taking a short position. For this example, that will mean selling short 1000 shares of company X. Risk is controlled when shares are only sold when the highest price (PH) goes higher than the highest price of the previous 15-minute period (PPH).

Look at the High column in the screen image below. You’ll notice that at $22.92, the PH is higher than the highest price of the previous 15-minute PPH ($22.90).

So if the short sale of shares were covered anywhere down to $22.73, they could be bought back in the current 15-minute period at any price down to the current Lowest (CL) price of 22.73 which is for the current 15-minute period Low.

If trades are executed online and the commission charges are $10 per transaction, the AMC (Amount Meeting Criteria) value shows a potential profit that can be as high as $170.

Referring to the screen image below, the formula used to calculate the potential outcome (profit or loss) for this trade is:

Click Here for field content descriptions of all columns in the Short Position section of the Show 15-Minute Metadata report.

At first glance, the amounts seem in both example seem to be rather insignificant. But remember that each day usually has twenty-six 15-minute trading periods. So using this strategy on a block of one thousand shares can potentially generate thousands of dollars daily.

For proof, look at either the Show-15-Minute-Metadata report or the Show-15-Minute-Metadata Summary report for any of the stocks featured on this site. Then look at the potential values under the column heading Total Value of these Matches for Day.

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