# Futures volume surge — NSE scan

> Futures trading at 1.5× their own 20-day average — the leveraged desk suddenly interested.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/futures-volume-surge

```sift
from fno where fut_volume > 1.5x avg(fut_volume, 20)
```

This is the volume shocker read from the derivatives market instead of the cash one. Futures volume is where positioning changes hands fastest, and a surge against the stock's own norm means the leveraged money found a reason today — news, a level, a rotation. Pair the list with the OI change to tell entry from exit: surging volume with rising OI is positions opening, with falling OI it is an unwind.

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

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/futures-volume-surge.