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- Trend Intensity 65 (TI65) is the 7-day average close (AVGC7) divided by the 65-day average close (AVGC65). Above 1.0 the short-term trend is pulling up and away from the medium-term trend; Bonde’s bullish line is 1.05.
- It reads speed, not distance. Where Double Trouble measures how far a stock has traveled from its low, TI65 measures whether it is still speeding up right now.
- The "young" flag is the screen’s real edge. It checks the same ratio 25 sessions ago: if the trend had not yet turned up then, the acceleration is only a few weeks old, which is where a swing trader wants to be rather than late in a mature move.
- A high but flat TI65 means a stock that already ran. A young TI65 means a move near its start. That flag separates the two, and it is the reason to prefer TI65 over eyeballing a moving-average stack.
- In the terminal,
ti65runs the screen at the 1.05 default and surfaces the young flag as a column.ti65 rs>90narrows to names also strong against the universe.
What the ratio measures
Trend Intensity 65 compares two moving averages of the closing price: a fast one over the last 7 sessions and a slow one over the last 65. Divide the fast by the slow. When recent closes are running above the quarter-long average, the 7-day mean sits above the 65-day mean, and the ratio prints above 1.0. Bonde’s bullish threshold is 1.05: the last week’s average price is at least 5% above the last quarter’s.
The reading captures something a single moving average cannot: the gap between the near term and the medium term, expressed as one number. A stock can be above its 65-day average and still be losing momentum if the 7-day is curling down toward it; TI65 catches that because the ratio compresses back toward 1.0. When a move is genuinely accelerating, the short average pulls away from the long one and the ratio expands.
The window choice (7 over 65) is deliberately short-over-quarter. Seven sessions is about a week and a half of trading, responsive enough to register a fresh push. Sixty-five sessions is about a quarter, long enough to stand for "the established trend." The ratio between them is a clean measure of how hard the near term is diverging from the base.
TI65 = 7-day average ÷ 65-day average. The ratio expands as the short average pulls away; the young flag marks where that turn-up began.
The young flag
A raw TI65 reading has a problem shared by every trend measure: by the time it is high, the move may be mostly over. A stock that has been strong for four months shows a healthy TI65, but a swing trader arriving on that reading is late. The screen needs a way to tell "just started accelerating" apart from "has been accelerating for a while," and the young flag is that way.
The flag looks back 25 sessions (about five weeks) and recomputes the same 7-over-65 ratio as it stood then. If that lagged ratio was still at or below 1.05, the trend had not yet turned up five weeks ago, which means the current acceleration is recent. The name is near the front of its move, not deep into it. tickerstance surfaces this as a 1/0 column alongside the ratio.
Young is where the reward lives. An old TI65 name can keep running, but the odds and the risk are worse: more of the move is behind it and the eventual pullback is closer. A young TI65 name that is also extended on Double Trouble and just printed a breakout day is about as close to the whole Stockbee idea in one stock as you get: a burst caught near its beginning.
A worked example
Picture a stock that spent the spring in a tight range, then broke out in June. Trace its TI65.
Through the range: AVGC7 around $20.10, AVGC65 around $20.00, ratio 1.005. Essentially flat: the two averages are tangled together and the screen ignores the name. First week of the breakout: AVGC7 jumps to $22.00 while AVGC65 lags at $20.50, ratio 1.07. It clears 1.05 and appears on the screen. Because the ratio 25 sessions earlier was still ~1.00, the young flag is set: this acceleration is fresh.
Three months later, after a long run: AVGC7 $31.00, AVGC65 $28.00, ratio 1.11, a higher reading than at the breakout. But the lagged ratio from 25 sessions ago is now also well above 1.05, so the young flag is off. The stock is still accelerating, but the acceleration is no longer new. Same screen, two very different reads: the 1.07-and-young reading in June is the fresh acceleration the young flag exists to surface; the 1.11-and-old reading in September describes a more mature move, further along with more of it already behind.
TI65 versus the persistence screens
Trend Intensity is the acceleration half of the family, and it exists to cover what Double Trouble and Modified Double Trouble miss. The persistence screens measure how far a stock sits above a floor or a mean: distance already traveled. TI65 measures whether the near-term trend is still pulling away from the base, which is current speed.
The two readings can disagree, and the disagreement is informative. Extended but flat? The move is behind it. Barely extended but accelerating hard? You are early. The names a burst trader wants most are the ones where a strong persistence read and a young acceleration read line up.
So the screens are unioned rather than used alone. (dt or ti65 or mdt) | overlap finds names that clear more than one, and a young TI65 inside that overlap is what turns "extended" into "extended and still going."
Where TI65 misleads
Choppy names generate false positives. A stock that whips up and down inside a wide range can pop the 7-day average above the 65-day for a week, print a TI65 above 1.05, and then reverse: no real trend, just noise that happened to align the two averages briefly. The young flag helps here (a genuine turn-up tends to persist) but does not eliminate it; the chart still has to confirm there is a base and a breakout behind the reading.
The ratio is also blind to gaps and to volume. It is built entirely from closing prices, so a move driven by thin, gappy trading looks the same as one driven by heavy institutional buying. That is deliberate: TI65 is one narrow measurement, so read it alongside a volume or breakout screen rather than in place of one.
Finally, TI65 needs enough history to compute both the current and the lagged ratio: 65 sessions for the averages, plus the 25-session lookback for the young flag. On names too new to fill those windows the young flag comes back empty even when the current ratio is available. A missing young flag on a recent issue usually means "not enough history," not "not young."
How tickerstance uses it
In the terminal, ti65 runs the screen at Bonde’s 1.05 default (AVGC7 over AVGC65) ranked by the ratio, with the raw value in the score column and the young flag surfaced as its own field. That lets you sort or filter on young directly, which is usually the point: the fresh accelerations are more actionable than the mature ones.
The screen composes with the rest of the family. ti65 rs>90 keeps only accelerating names that are also strong against the universe. (dt or ti65 or mdt) | overlap unions it with the persistence screens so you can see which names are both extended and accelerating. Adding 1d>-1 1d<1 to that overlap leaves names accelerating on the trend but quiet today, loaded and waiting for their breakout bar.
Like its siblings, TI65 sits outside Stance. It rates one name’s speed, not the market’s mood. Separate data, separate surface.
Frequently asked questions
What is Trend Intensity 65?
A momentum screen from the Stockbee family that divides a stock’s 7-day average close by its 65-day average close. A reading above 1.05 means the short-term trend is accelerating at least 5% ahead of the medium-term trend. It measures current speed rather than distance traveled.
How is TI65 calculated?
Compute the simple average of the last 7 closes (AVGC7) and the last 65 closes (AVGC65), then divide the first by the second. Above 1.0 the recent trend is above the base trend; Bonde’s bullish threshold is 1.05. tickerstance uses this formula and also computes a "young" flag from the same ratio 25 sessions earlier.
What does the "young" flag mean?
It marks whether the acceleration is recent. The flag recomputes the 7-over-65 ratio as it stood 25 sessions ago; if that lagged ratio was still at or below 1.05, the trend had not yet turned up then, so the current move is only a few weeks old. Young readings catch a move near its start rather than late in a mature run.
How is TI65 different from Double Trouble?
Double Trouble measures distance: the close over the 252-day low, or how far a stock sits above its yearly floor. TI65 measures acceleration: whether the short-term average is still pulling away from the medium-term one. A stock can be extended (high Double Trouble) but no longer accelerating (low, flat TI65), or accelerating hard without having traveled far. The screens cover each other’s blind spots.
Can TI65 give a false signal?
Yes. A choppy stock can briefly push its 7-day average above its 65-day one and print a reading over 1.05 without any real trend behind it. TI65 is also built only from closing prices, so it ignores gaps and volume. The young flag reduces false positives, but the reading should still be confirmed with the chart, a volume read, and the base structure.
Why 7 and 65 days?
Seven sessions is roughly a week and a half, short enough to register a fresh push. Sixty-five sessions is about a calendar quarter, long enough to stand for the established trend. The ratio between a short and a quarter-length average is a clean, single-number measure of how hard the near term is diverging from the base.
How do I run TI65 on tickerstance?
Type ti65 in the terminal. It returns names with a 7-over-65 average ratio of at least 1.05, ranked by the ratio, with the young flag as its own column. Add rs>90 to keep the strong names, or fold it into (dt or ti65 or mdt) | overlap for the whole family’s agreement. The quickest edge, though, is to sort on the young column and read the freshest moves first.