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The site FAQ answers this in one line: “Above All means price is above every tracked 50SMA timeframe — 1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute, 60-minute, daily, weekly, and monthly.” This article is the longer version of that line — specifically, why stacking seven timeframes together, instead of relying on just one, is the point.

Why one timeframe alone is noisy

A stock's price crosses above and below its own 1-minute 50SMA constantly over the course of a session. Taken alone, that crossing carries very little information — it's close to a coin-flip-ish state that changes every few minutes as short-term noise pushes price back and forth across the line. A signal built on a single short timeframe like that would fire far too often to be useful as a shortlist filter.

One noisy timeframe versus seven required to agree A flickering single-timeframe signal compared with a stable signal that requires all seven timeframes to agree. 1-minute alone — flips often All seven timeframes required — rare, more meaningful stack completes

Illustrative signal shapes, not real data. A single short timeframe changes state often; getting all seven timeframes to agree at once is a much less frequent, more significant event.

What requiring all seven buys you

For price to sit above all seven timeframes' averages at the same moment, the extension has to be significant enough to show up not just in short-term noise but in the 60-minute, daily, weekly, and monthly trend as well. That's a much narrower, much less frequent condition than any single timeframe crossing its own average — which is exactly why it's a more meaningful filter for a shortlist that's meant to surface a small number of genuinely extended names rather than a constantly-changing list of short-term noise.

Key takeaway: requiring seven timeframes to agree isn't arbitrary strictness — it's what turns a noisy, frequently-changing condition into a rare, more meaningful one.

What it doesn't tell you

Being in the stack says a stock is broadly extended across every timeframe tracked. It doesn't say why. Sometimes that's a temporary overextension fitting the mean-reversion pattern described in the theory article below; sometimes it's the early stage of a genuine, durable repricing that keeps extending rather than reverting. The stack is the start of the analysis, the same way an abnormal opening range is on Feed 01 — not the conclusion.

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