# Above the 20-day most of the month — NSE scan

> Closed above the 20-day average on 17 of the last 20 sessions, ADX over 20. The forgiving version of a persistence scan.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/mostly-above-20-day

```sift
where count(close > sma(20), 20) >= 17
  and adx > 20
```

The forgiving cousin of the ten-sessions-above scan. It tolerates up to three closes under the 20-day in a month, which is how a healthy trend actually behaves, instead of demanding an unbroken run. The ADX condition stops it returning stocks that have drifted sideways just above a flat average. Twenty is a modest bar. It is still enough to say the sessions above the line came from movement and not from noise.

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

More momentum: [Stacked moving averages](https://patternsradar.com/screener/stacked-averages.md), [One-year leaders](https://patternsradar.com/screener/one-year-leaders.md), [Strong but not overbought](https://patternsradar.com/screener/strong-and-quiet.md), [Ten sessions above the 20-day](https://patternsradar.com/screener/persistent-trend.md), [Volume building](https://patternsradar.com/screener/volume-building.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/mostly-above-20-day.

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Price and delivery data from the [eod2](https://github.com/BennyThadikaran/eod2) dataset: National Stock Exchange of India end-of-day files, split- and bonus-adjusted, updated after each close. Not affiliated with or endorsed by NSE. PatternsRadar is a research tool. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything.