# Above a rising 200-day average — NSE scan

> The plain health check: price above the 200-day, and the 200-day itself climbing.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/above-200-dma

```sift
where close > sma(200) and sma(200) rising for 20 bars
```

The most-quoted trend filter in the business, with the refinement that separates it from a blunt instrument: the average must itself be rising, which requires months of accumulation rather than one sharp rally over a flat line. This is a universe more than a signal — the pool of stocks in confirmed uptrends that the more specific scans hunt inside.

Category: [Momentum](https://patternsradar.com/scans/momentum.md). Default universe: top 500 NSE stocks by 20-day turnover.

Guides: [Screen NSE stocks with Claude over MCP](https://patternsradar.com/blog/screen-nse-stocks-with-claude-mcp.md), [A swing trading screener for India](https://patternsradar.com/blog/swing-trading-screener-india.md).

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://patternsradar.com/screener/above-200-dma.