Scanner interpretation
Market Radar defines a flag as a proportional counter-trend pause after an impulse move. The impulse provides context; the flag itself shows whether the market is digesting that move in an orderly way.
A clean flag usually has a compact pullback, recognizable channel behavior, and an invalidation boundary close enough to make the structure useful for analysis.
- Impulse leg first
- Controlled counter-trend channel
- Pullback stays proportionate
- Continuation side remains visible
Quality model
The scanner gives more weight to shallow retracements, cooling volume, and moving-average context that remains aligned with the original impulse.
A flag loses quality when it retraces too much, takes too long, or expands sharply against the trend. In those cases, the pattern may no longer represent continuation.