# Bollinger band breakout — NSE scan

> Close pushing above the upper band, with volume confirming.

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

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

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.

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

Guides: [Bollinger band squeeze screener for NSE](https://patternsradar.com/blog/bollinger-band-squeeze-screener.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/bollinger-breakout.