Breakout screener

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

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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 5 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
Breakouts that failed, for study. Not in the default screen.
The stock closed above its pivot, but has since slipped back under it, so that breakout did not hold. Shown so you can see which breakouts failed, not as a signal about what happens next.

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 odds for any setup. The record counts what past breakouts did afterwards. That is a count of the past, not a chance for a base on this page, so no setup carries a probability, a grade or a score.

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.