Institutional Trader

An institutional trader manages relatively large amounts of capital, compared to most traders.  Institutional traders will typically have larger positions and hold them for longer periods of time.  When they trade, they often trade large numbers of shares at once.

It's often said that institutional traders are the ones who really move the markets.  They create the large, sustained price changes.  Most of the noise in the markets comes from day traders, trying to see what the institutions are doing and acting accordingly.  The remaining investors do not make a serious impact on the market.

We offer a variety of longer term alerts, such as the VWAP and the 200 day moving average alerts, aimed specifically at the institutional investors.  We also offer a variety of shorter term alerts, like the block trade and running up alerts, specifically aimed at people trying to follow the institutional investors.

Alert Types

We offer the following alert types which are related to this topic.  Click on the icon for a detailed description of the alert, or click on the "more" link for additional examples of each type of alert.

Type	Recent Examples			More Examples
	Time (NY)	Symbol	Message
	May 16th, 4:18:50 PM	FXN	New High: +0.05.	more
	May 16th, 4:15:13 PM	EEV	New Low: -0.11.	more
	May 16th, 6:17:26 PM	MTZ	Price crossed above close (10.07). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 5:33:36 PM	ABH	Price crossed below close (10.00). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 6:40:55 PM	BYI	Strong consolidation. $42.27-42.35. Shares: 335,328. Time: 2 hours 54 minutes.	more
	May 16th, 6:54:23 PM	EEE	Running up: +0.05 in less than one minute.	more
	May 16th, 6:44:44 PM	CPST	Running down: -0.08 in less than one minute.	more
	May 16th, 6:23:14 PM	MTZ	Running up: +0.11 in 3 minutes 38 seconds. Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 5:08:14 PM	LHCG	Running down briskly: -0.20 in 68 minutes 11 seconds. Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 6:17:26 PM	MTZ	Price crossed above 200 day SMA (10.7451). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 4:14:06 PM	TXRH	Price crossed below 200 day SMA (11.3065). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 4:18:55 PM	TLAB	Price crossed above 50 day SMA (5.595). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 5:08:03 PM	PRGS	Price crossed below 50 day SMA (29.8294). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 4:26:06 PM	AZPN	Price crossed above 20 day SMA (13.947). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 5:33:36 PM	ABH	Price crossed below 20 day SMA (9.865). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 6:37:28 PM	JASO	Price crossed above VWAP (24.6024). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 6:31:00 PM	APC	Price crossed below VWAP (78.1656). Confirmed by volume.	more
	May 16th, 6:56:15 PM	FORM	Channel breakout from $22.04-22.15, 3 hours 33 minutes.	more
	May 16th, 6:59:09 PM	BBI	Channel breakdown from $3.13-3.19, 3 hours 47 minutes.	more
	May 16th, 6:40:55 PM	BYI	Block trade. Trading between. (NASDAQ)	more

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