These alerts are similar to their faster counterparts, but these alerts work on a longer time frame and require more volume to appear.  These alerts work on a minimum time frame of approximately 15 minutes.  The exact time frame can change based on how quickly a stock is trading.  To assist institutional traders, these alerts have stricter criteria than the faster ones, so fewer of these alerts appear.

There is no direct relationship between the confirmed and faster version of these alerts.  Neither is a subset of the other.  It is analogous to the problem of drawing trendlines on graphs with two different time frames.  A trend may be clear in the smaller time frame but reverse itself several times in the larger time frame.  Conversely, a trend may not be considered strong to report on the smaller time frame, but in the larger time frame the trend is consistent enough to report.  The confirmed version of these alerts actually monitors multiple time frames, with different cutoffs for each one.

Because these alerts require statistical confirmation of a trend, the last print may not agree with the trend.  Often these alerts can be helpful to find tops and bottoms.  During especially turbulent trading, it is even possible to see a running up alert followed almost immediately by a running down alert.  This is not a mistake.  In this case the VWAP graph will show a trend moving up then down, with one or more major volume spikes in the middle.

The description of the alert will include more information:

• Running up - This stock price is increasing quickly.
• Running up briskly - This stock price is increasing even more quickly.
• Running down - This stock price is decreasing quickly.
• Running down briskly - This stock price is decreasing even more quickly.

More options related to these alerts are listed below.