# Ten sessions above the 20-day — NSE scan

> Price that has not closed below its 20-day average in two weeks. Persistence, not a single good day.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/persistent-trend

```sift
where close has been above sma(20) for 10 bars and adx > 25
```

Most screeners can only ask about today. This asks whether a condition has held for ten consecutive sessions, which is a different and better question — one good day is noise, ten in a row is a stock under steady accumulation.

Category: [Momentum](https://patternsradar.com/scans/momentum.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/persistent-trend.