TICK
How many stocks are trading up minus how many are trading down, right now.
How to read it
A fast, noisy gauge of buying and selling pressure; extremes mark bursts of program activity.
How to use it
Times intraday entries: extreme readings mark bursts of buying or selling.
In Kereon
Market. A desk proxy: of the desk's stocks, those whose last traded one-minute close was above the one before it, minus those whose was below. Minutes with no volume are skipped.
Also called: tick, tick proxy.