Use Case · Technical

52-week low alerts

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A new 52-week low is the inverse of a 52-week high — a stock at the bottom of its annual range. For risk-aware investors, it's a warning signal on holdings. For value buyers, it's a hunting ground for capitulation entries on quality companies that have fallen too far.

Two ways to use it

52-week low alerts are useful in two distinct ways:

As a risk signal — any holding hitting a new 52-week low is telling you that recent price action has been the worst it's been in a year. Time to review the position thesis.
As an entry signal for value buyers — quality companies that sell off into capitulation often present the best entry points of the year. The challenge is filtering out the genuinely broken stories from the temporary overshoots.

How Tickerbot does it

Tickerbot precomputes a 52_week_low flag on every ticker, refreshed every five minutes. State-change dedup means one notification per fresh low.

Risk monitor

Any stock in my watchlist hitting a new 52-week low

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BABA new 52w low at $74.10. Stock down 31% YTD.

The value-hunter version

For capitulation buying, the trick is filtering for companies with sound fundamentals where the drawdown looks more like a market overreaction than a structural problem.

Quality at a 52-week low

Any stock at a new 52-week low with a P/E under 15, profit margin above 15%, and a dividend yield above 3%

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1 stock matches. P/E 13.4, margin 18%, yield 3.6%. Quality + value capitulation.

Stacking with insider activity

The strongest version of the value-buyer alert pairs the new low with insider buying on the same name. When insiders are accumulating into the drawdown, they're signaling something the market hasn't priced in.

Capitulation + insider buy

New 52-week low on a stock with at least one insider buy of more than $250K in the last 30 days

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1 stock flagged. CFO bought $410K, stock at fresh 52w low.

Variants worth setting up

52-week lows on any of your current holdings (risk inverse)
52-week lows on any S&P 500 stock with a P/E under 12
52-week lows paired with bullish analyst consensus (analyst/market disagreement)
All-time lows on small caps (the deeper version)

Set up your first 52-week low alert

Tickerbot tracks every new low across the whole market and surfaces the ones that match your conditions.