# Within 3% of the 52-week high — NSE scan

> Coiling just under the highs. Often a better entry than the breakout candle itself.

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

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

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.

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

Guides: [The 52-week high strategy on the NSE](https://patternsradar.com/blog/52-week-high-strategy-nse.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/near-52-week-high.