Name: PCTY Trading Alert Analysis
Creator: FILTRIX

Ticker Report — Active Last signal · November 28, 2023

🏢 Company Profile

Paylocity Holding Corporation Common Stock SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE (SIC 7372)

📍 NASDAQ 📅 IPO: Mar 19, 2014 🔗 www.paylocity.com

💰 Market Cap: $6.16B 👥 Employees: 6,700

Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management provider offering payroll, compliance, and human resources management solutions. With the addition of expense and IT management modules, Paylocity unifies back-office operations spanning HR, finance, and IT on a single platform and bills customers on a subscription basis. The firm's customer base skews toward the midmarket and is primarily based in the US. As of fiscal 2025, Paylocity has nearly 42,000 customers.

Total alerts

Trade-Ideas signal history

Win rate · EOD

75.0%

Best timeframe baseline

Avg gain · EOD

+1.70%

Per-alert expectancy

Avg MFE

+2.28%

Max potential excursion

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📈 Performance by Timeframe

5MIN

Win Rate: 50.0%

Avg Gain: +0.66%

Avg Winner: +1.64%

Avg Loser: -0.33%

Best: +2.27%

Worst: -0.54%

Trades: 2/2

15MIN

Win Rate: 66.7%

Avg Gain: +0.88%

Avg Winner: +1.42%

Avg Loser: -0.19%

Best: +1.88%

Worst: -0.19%

Trades: 2/1

30MIN

Win Rate: 50.0%

Avg Gain: +0.49%

Avg Winner: +1.79%

Avg Loser: -0.82%

Best: +2.47%

Worst: -0.99%

Trades: 2/2

60MIN

Win Rate: 66.7%

Avg Gain: +0.31%

Avg Winner: +1.32%

Avg Loser: -1.72%

Best: +1.79%

Worst: -1.72%

Trades: 2/1

EOD (End of Day)

Win Rate: 75.0%

Avg Gain: +1.70%

Avg Winner: +2.57%

Avg Loser: -0.89%

Best: +3.59%

Worst: -0.89%

Trades: 3/1

🚀 Max Favorable / Adverse Excursion (MFE/MAE)

Institutional-grade metrics showing the maximum profit potential and risk for each alert.

📈 MFE (Max Profit Potential)

Average MFE: +2.28%

Best MFE: +3.65%

Avg Time to MFE: 225 min

On average, PCTY alerts reach +2.28% profit potential within 225 minutes.

📉 MAE (Max Drawdown Risk)

Average MAE: -0.14%

Worst MAE: -1.09%

Avg Time to MAE: 40 min

Before reaching MFE, expect an average drawdown of 0.14%.

⚖️ Risk/Reward Ratio

16.52:1

Excellent risk/reward - potential gain is 16.52x the typical drawdown.

💡 Trading Insight: Based on 4 alerts, PCTY typically reaches +2.28% profit before pulling back. Consider setting profit targets around 1.8% to capture most of the move.

🌅 Premarket Gap Analysis (9:25 → 9:30)

Total Gaps Analyzed 4

Gap Up % 50.0%

Avg Gap +0.26%

Best Gap +1.00%

🏭 Sector Comparison: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE

How PCTY compares to 137 other tickers in the same sector.

5-Min Gain

PCTY: +1.64% Sector: -0.09% +1.73%

EOD Gain

PCTY: +2.89% Sector: +73.64% -70.75%

Avg MFE

PCTY: +3.22% Sector: +4.32% -1.10%

📋 Last 20 Alerts

Historical PCTY alerts with performance metrics calculated from 1-minute price data. Each row shows the actual price movement at different timeframes after the alert.

Date	Time	Price	5min	15min	30min	60min	EOD	MFE	MAE	Gap	Result
2023-11-28	09:25:00	$146.82	-0.54%	-0.19%	-0.64%	-	+1.93%	+2.60%	-0.71%	-0.52%	LOSS
2023-06-12	09:26:00	$182.44	+1.00%	+0.96%	+1.11%	+0.85%	+3.59%	+3.65%	+0.48%	+1.00%	WIN
2023-04-11	09:29:00	$187.0	+2.27%	+1.88%	+2.47%	+1.79%	+2.19%	+2.80%	+0.76%	+0.96%	WIN
2023-02-10	09:27:00	$222.01	-0.11%	-	-0.99%	-1.72%	-0.89%	+0.08%	-1.09%	-0.40%	LOSS

Table Metrics Explained:

5min/15min/30min/60min/EOD: Price change at each timeframe (calculated from real minute-by-minute data)
MFE: Maximum Favorable Excursion - highest profit potential reached during the day
MAE: Maximum Adverse Excursion - worst drawdown experienced before reaching MFE
Gap: Premarket price gap from 9:25 AM to 9:30 AM market open
Result: WIN if 5min change > 0%, LOSS otherwise

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Why Analyze PCTY with FILTRIX?

🛡️ Realistic Entry Simulation

We don't inflate stats. Our analysis tracks only the first alert of the day for PCTY. This simulates a true "Gap & Go" entry at pre-market hours (9:25-9:30 AM), avoiding the trap of chasing a stock that has already extended.

💰 Max Potential (MFE) Analysis

How much is left in the move? On winning days, PCTY historically offers an average upside of +2.28% intraday. Our data helps you distinguish between a quick scalp and a runner.

📊 PCTY Momentum Personality

With a baseline win rate of 75.0%, PCTY shows strong follow-through, making it a prime candidate for momentum strategies.

⏱️ Optimized Exit Timing

Don't guess when to sell. Our backtests show PCTY performs best on the EOD (End of Day) timeframe (Avg Gain: +1.70%), signaling that gains often fade later in the session.

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