AMD Missing Minute: Why No Row Isn’t a Flat Candle
Summary
Hollow Point Trading shares a short video examining a historical AMD IEX extract with observations at 15:10, 15:11, 15:13, and 15:14 UTC, but none at 15:12. It explains why four observed minute bars are not five and why missing data alone does not show that trading stopped or the candle was flat.
https://youtu.be/2OsHN5_CnWg
AMD: a missing minute is not a flat candle #Shorts

A missing data row is not evidence that a stock stopped trading. This historical AMD IEX extract has observations stamped fifteen ten, fifteen eleven, fifteen thirteen, and fifteen fourteen UTC. There is no fifteen twelve row in this five minute window. That gives four observed minute bars, not five. It does not establish zero trading across eve...