UPS Qstick: Candle Bodies vs. Net Price Change
Summary
Hollow Point Trading shares a historical UPS IEX replay using ten completed five-minute candles from October 8, 2026. The example calculates Qstick by averaging each candle’s signed close-minus-open difference, clarifying why average candle body is not the same as total net price change.
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An average candle body is not the same as the total price change. This historical UPS IEX replay uses ten completed five minute candles from October eighth, twenty twenty six. We calculate a simple Qstick example: subtract each candles observed open from its close, retaining the sign. Then average those ten dollar differences. The signed bodies ...