# Breakout stock scanners for NSE

> Free breakout screeners for NSE stocks: 52-week highs, volume breakouts, Donchian and Bollinger channel breaks — each on its own page, each backtestable.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/scans/breakouts

A breakout scan looks for price escaping a range that has held it: a 52-week high, the top of a 20-day channel, a Bollinger band, yesterday's high. The premise is the same in every variant — a level that has repeatedly turned price back has a queue of orders behind it, and clearing it converts that overhead supply into fuel. What separates a tradable breakout from a drift through the level is almost always volume, which is why nearly every scan here carries a volume condition alongside the price one. Breakout scans run best after the close, on the day's final bar: a level broken intraday and surrendered by the close is precisely the failure the volume filter exists to catch. Every scan below can be tested against the last year of sessions before you trust it — breakouts are the setup with the widest gap between how good they look and how often they follow through, and that gap is measurable.

## The scans (13)

### 52-week high breakout

https://patternsradar.com/screener/52-week-high-breakout.md

```sift
where close is highest in 52w and rel_volume > 1.5
```

Closing at a fresh 52-week high on above-average volume — the classic Darvas-style entry. A stock making its highest close in a year has no overhead supply left: nobody who bought in the last twelve months is sitting on a loss and waiting to get out even. The volume filter is what separates a real breakout from a drift to new highs on nothing, which tends to fall straight back through the level.

### Within 3% of the 52-week high

https://patternsradar.com/screener/near-52-week-high.md

```sift
where close within 3% of high_52w and close > ema(50)
```

Coiling just under the highs. Often a better entry than the breakout candle itself. Buying the breakout candle means paying for the gap and wearing the failed ones. This finds the same stocks a few days earlier, while they are still consolidating under the level, with the 50-day average as a check that the trend underneath is intact.

### Volume breakout

https://patternsradar.com/screener/volume-breakout.md

```sift
where volume > 2x avg(volume, 20)
  and change > 3
  and close > sma(20)
```

Twice normal volume with price up more than 3% — something changed today. Volume is the one input that cannot be drawn on a chart after the fact: twice the twenty-day average means twice as many people acted. Paired with a 3% advance and a close above the 20-day average, it usually marks news, a result, or an institution starting a position.

### Volume shockers

https://patternsradar.com/screener/volume-shockers.md

```sift
where volume > 2x avg(volume, 10) and change > 5
```

Twice the ten-day average volume with a move of more than 5% — the day something happened. The most-cloned scan on Chartink, and worth having for the same reason: it is the shortest path to the day's genuinely unusual names. A shorter ten-day volume baseline than the standard twenty makes it react faster, which is the point — this is a scan for finding out what happened today, not for timing an entry.

### 20-day channel breakout

https://patternsradar.com/screener/donchian-breakout.md

```sift
where close > donchian_upper[-1]
  and volume > 1.5x avg(volume, 20)
```

Pushing through the top of the 20-day range with volume behind it. The Turtle traders' entry, more or less: buy when price clears the highest high of the last twenty sessions. Comparing against the previous bar's channel rather than today's is what keeps it honest — today's high is part of today's channel, so the naive version triggers on itself.

### Bollinger band breakout

https://patternsradar.com/screener/bollinger-breakout.md

```sift
where close > bb().upper and rel_volume > 1.5
```

Close pushing above the upper band, with volume confirming. A close above the upper band is a two-standard-deviation move against the stock's own recent range, so it adapts to each name rather than applying one percentage to all of them. Note that in a strong trend price can ride the band for weeks — this finds the start of that, not an overbought signal.

### Keltner channel breakout

https://patternsradar.com/screener/keltner-breakout.md

```sift
where close > keltner_upper and rel_volume > 1.5
```

Clearing the ATR-based upper channel — a steadier breakout signal than Bollinger's. Keltner channels are built from average true range rather than standard deviation, so they widen with real volatility instead of with the size of recent surprises. That makes them slower to flag a breakout and less prone to calling one during a single wild session.

### Crossing above pivot R1

https://patternsradar.com/screener/pivot-r1-break.md

```sift
where close crosses above pivot_r1 and rel_volume > 1.5
```

Price clearing the first pivot resistance on strong volume — a classic floor-trader level. Pivot points are computed from the previous session's high, low and close, so R1 is a level every desk running the same formula is watching. Its value is self-fulfilling rather than predictive, which is exactly why a decisive break of it on volume tends to run.

### Crossing above the Ichimoku base

https://patternsradar.com/screener/ichimoku-breakout.md

```sift
where close crosses above ichimoku_base and close > sma(50)
```

Price reclaiming the Kijun-sen while the medium-term trend still points up. The base line sits at the midpoint of the last 26 sessions' range, which makes it a fair definition of where the stock has been trading. Crossing back above it is the first Ichimoku signal to fire in a turn, and the 50-day filter keeps this to stocks that have not already broken down.

### Previous day's high break

https://patternsradar.com/screener/previous-day-high-break.md

```sift
where close > high[-1] and rel_volume > 1.5
```

Closing above yesterday's high on half again the usual volume — the simplest breakout there is. Yesterday's high is the most recent level everybody watched, and closing through it is the smallest unit of trend there is: one session outbidding the whole of the last one. On its own that happens constantly, which is why the volume condition carries this scan — a close above the prior high on ordinary volume is noise, on heavy volume it is intent.

### Six-month high

https://patternsradar.com/screener/six-month-high.md

```sift
where close is highest in 26w and rel_volume > 1.2
```

The highest close in twenty-six weeks, with volume above the daily norm. The stricter cousin of this scan — the 52-week high — misses stocks that spent the first half of the year recovering. A six-month high catches a repaired chart earlier: the downtrend is finished, the recent base is cleared, and there is still a supply of trapped holders above to squeeze through, which is what makes the volume check worth having.

### Aroon uptrend

https://patternsradar.com/screener/aroon-breakout.md

```sift
where aroon_up > 70 and aroon_down < 30 and close > sma(50)
```

Aroon-up above 70 with Aroon-down below 30 — a new high made recently and no new low in sight. Aroon does not measure how far price moved, only how recently it made an extreme: up above 70 means a fresh 25-day high in the last week or so, down below 30 means the last 25-day low is ancient history. The pair together is a clean definition of "trending up" that ignores magnitude entirely, which makes it a good complement to scans that only look at price change.

### OBV at a six-month high

https://patternsradar.com/screener/obv-new-high.md

```sift
where obv() is highest in 26w and close > sma(50)
```

Cumulative volume flow at a new high while the trend holds — accumulation leading price. On-balance volume adds the day's volume on up days and subtracts it on down days, so it tracks who is winning rather than where price sits. When OBV makes a new high the buying pressure is already at breakout levels even if price is not, and the classic reading is that price follows volume — this scan looks for exactly that lead.

## Common questions

### What is a breakout scan?

A breakout scan filters for stocks whose price has just cleared a level that previously contained it — a 52-week high, a channel top, a band, or the previous day's high — usually with a volume condition to separate conviction from drift.

### Which breakout scan is best for NSE stocks?

There is no single best one. The 52-week high breakout finds mature trends with no overhead supply; the volume breakout catches the day something changed; the Donchian channel break is the systematic trend-following entry. Run the hit-rate test on each to see which suits your holding period.

### Do breakout scans work in a falling market?

Far less often. A breakout is a bet on continuation, and continuation needs a market willing to pay up. In a correction, most breakouts fail back into their range within days — which the backtest replay on each scan page will show you rather than tell you.