During periods of sideways or low market activity, it is possible that fewer patterns are found in the stocks being analyzed. Or if the market is falling and you are looking for bullish patterns, there may be very few found. Also, to maintain high quality results, Featured Ideas imposes certain filters on the type of company that is featured, so if few patterns are found in that subset of the total market, then it is possible that less than 5 Featured Events have occurred. Effectively, the quality of these Featured Events is important, not the quantity.