A swing trading screener for India

Swing trading lives in the space between a day trade and an investment: positions held for days to a few weeks, aimed at catching one leg of a move rather than the whole trend. A swing screen therefore has one job — find stocks where the next few days are unusually likely to move in a known direction — and almost every good one is built from the same three layers.

Layer 1: Trend — only fish upstream

The single highest-value filter in swing trading costs one condition:

where close > sma(200)

Stocks above their 200-day average are in long-term uptrends; pullbacks in them get bought. The stricter version demands the average itself be rising — months of accumulation, not one sharp rally over a flat line — which is the prebuilt Above a rising 200-day average scan. This layer isn't a signal. It defines the pond.

Layer 2: Setup — strength that has paused

Within the trend pond you want stocks that have already proven relative strength and are currently resting — because entering strength mid-sprint is how swing trades start underwater. Three classic shapes:

The pullback. Short-term washed out inside a long-term uptrend:

where close > sma(200) and rsi(14) < 40

Stocks above their 200-day rarely push RSI this low, so the list is short on most days — the point. Run it: Pullback in an uptrend.

The high-tight consolidation. Coiling just under the 52-week high with the trend intact — often a better entry than the breakout candle itself, because you are not paying for the gap or wearing the failed breaks: Within 3% of the 52-week high.

Strong but not overbought. A three-month gainer with RSI parked mid-range — the same momentum names, caught in a pause rather than a sprint: Strong but not overbought.

Layer 3: Trigger — the bar that starts the clock

The setup says where; the trigger says when. For swing horizons the cleanest trigger is a compression bar inside the setup — an inside bar whose entire range fits within the previous session's:

where pattern is inside_bar and close > sma(50) > sma(200)

The inside bar gives an unusually well-defined level to trade against: above its high is confirmation, below its low is invalidation, and the distance between them is your initial risk. Prebuilt: Inside bar in an uptrend.

Assembling it

The layers compose in one query — this is the whole point of screening with a language rather than a form:

where close > sma(200)
  and sma(200) rising for 20 bars
  and rsi(14) between 40 and 55
  and pattern is inside_bar

Open any preset above and edit it; every condition in this guide is a line you can add or drop. The momentum and breakout hubs collect the related families.

The step everyone skips: check the screen works

Every scan page here has a hit-rate replay: run the scan on each session of the past year and measure what happened next over your holding period. For a swing screen this answers the only questions that matter — how often does the setup resolve upward within 5–10 sessions, and what does the typical failure cost? A screen that looks brilliant and tests at coin-flip odds is a story, not a system; five minutes of replay sorts one from the other before any money is involved.