# One-year leaders — NSE scan

> Up more than 50% over a year and still within 10% of the high — momentum that has not rolled over.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/one-year-leaders

```sift
where return_1y > 50
  and close within 10% of high_52w
sort by return_1y desc
```

Relative strength is the most durable anomaly in equities, and this is its plainest expression: what has gone up keeps going up more often than chance allows. The second condition is what stops it returning last year's winners that have since topped out.

Category: [Momentum](https://patternsradar.com/scans/momentum.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).

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/one-year-leaders.