Fast-Falling Stock Alerts over 60 Seconds
Spot stocks falling quickly over the last 60 seconds with ChartsWatcher’s Running Down alert. Configure the required move as a percentage or dollar amount.
Understand the trigger
What is Running Down?
Running Down measures a stock’s downward price move over the last sixty seconds. ChartsWatcher lets you express the required move as a percentage or an absolute dollar amount, using 0.1 increments with a documented minimum of 0.5. This is a short rolling-window event, not a stock’s total loss since yesterday’s close. The alert is calculated during premarket, regular market, and postmarket sessions.
An illustrative example
Running Down in practice
The help documentation gives a 2.3% decline within sixty seconds as an example condition. A hypothetical stock meeting that configured downward move illustrates the percentage option. Choosing a dollar threshold would instead measure an absolute price decrease, so the numerical setting needs to be interpreted with its selected unit.
Make it part of your workflow
Catch the event. Keep the context.
Use ChartsWatcher to bring abrupt short-window declines into a review queue. Open the chart and available news to see where the rapid move fits within the stock’s session, and compare it with volume. Separating this alert from change-from-close filters helps distinguish a recent acceleration from a stock that has simply been down all day.
ChartsWatcher brings your chosen alert types and filters into the same alert window. Add the data columns you want to see, then use the connected chart and news tools to explore a matching symbol.
Explore the alert windowBefore you build
A little more detail.
How do I add Running Down in ChartsWatcher?
Open or create an alert window and choose Running Down in its configuration. Select the available options that match your setup, then add filters to define which stocks can trigger it. Review matching alerts alongside a chart and the stock’s news.
What should I check before using this alert?
A rapid decline can start from any daily performance level and may reverse quickly. Percentage and dollar thresholds behave differently across stock prices, so their units are essential.
From an idea to your own scan.
Use Running Down with the other conditions that define your setup. Keep matching stocks, charts, and news together, with a configuration you can refine as you go.