Breakout screener

Every NSE and BSE stock building a base, and how close each one is to clearing it. Sorted by strength, filtered by shape, with every number explained.

Live setups screen

The four stages

Every stock in the scan sits at one point of the same lifecycle. The stage is not a rating, it is a position: a name that is forming has not proved anything yet, and a name that has played out already made its move.

Forming

Still building a base, below the trigger price.

Price is working sideways under its pivot and has not broken out. This is where a base can still tighten, and also where most of them quietly fail — a base forming is not a base that worked.

Fresh breakouts

Cleared the trigger in the last few sessions.

Price has closed above the pivot recently and has not yet run far from it. Check the breakout volume: a move through the pivot on ordinary turnover is weaker evidence than the same move on a multiple of it.

Climbing

Broke out earlier and is holding above the trigger.

Past the pivot and still above it. The base has done its job here. The risk is no longer whether it triggers, it is that the entry is now further from the level the base defined.

Played out

Extended well beyond the trigger.

Price has run far enough from the pivot that the base no longer offers a nearby reference point. Shown so you can see what already moved, not because a large gain means more is coming.

What each screen looks for

A base can carry more than one of these shapes at once. Each is a description of price and volume behaviour, and each has a limitation that is stated rather than buried.

VCP

Bases where each pullback is shallower than the one before it and volume fades as the range tightens.

The catch. A tightening range says supply is thinning, not that a buyer is waiting. Ranges also tighten right before a stock breaks the other way.

High since 2020

Bases built at the highest price in the data we hold, so there is no overhead supply from recent buyers sitting on losses.

The catch. Our price history starts in 2020. This is the highest price since then, NOT an all-time high — a stock that peaked in 2017 can appear here with plenty of trapped supply above it.

Multi-year

Long bases, measured in years rather than weeks, where a stock has gone nowhere for a long time.

The catch. A long base means a long argument between buyers and sellers. It resolves in one direction or the other, and the length alone does not say which.

IPO base

The first base a recently listed company forms, before it has a long trading history.

The catch. Little price history means the usual trend filters have little to work with, and lock-in expiries can put supply on the market that no chart predicted.

What this screen does not tell you

No success rates. Nothing here has been backtested against what happened next, so no setup carries a probability, a grade or a score. A number like that would look like a measurement and would be invented, which is worse than not showing one at all.

Price history starts in 2020. Anything described as a high is a high since then. A stock that peaked earlier can still have sellers waiting above the level this page calls a breakout.

Missing is not zero. Where the detector could not measure something it is shown as a dash, never as zero. A base with no breakout has no breakout volume, and printing 0 there would read as a breakout that nobody traded.

Some price series are unadjusted. A few stocks carry a split or bonus we have not adjusted for, which can distort the depth and pivot of a base. Those rows are flagged rather than removed, so you can see them and check the chart yourself.

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Base and breakout detection describes past price and volume. It is provided for research and education, is not investment advice, and no pattern or threshold predicts future returns.