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title: errant ticks
description: "Easily visible on a 1-minute bar chart, errant ticks briefly exceed the prior bar, and are not overlapped by the subsequent bar. They reflect sentiment becoming extreme, although the extreme can be repeated."
url: "https://viditrade.com/knowledge-base/jargon/errant-ticks/"
updated: "2023-07-06"
category: Jargon
---

# errant ticks

Easily visible on a 1-minute bar chart, errant ticks briefly exceed the prior bar, and are not overlapped by the subsequent bar. They reflect sentiment becoming extreme, although the extreme can be repeated.