# Volume building — NSE scan

> Three consecutive sessions of rising volume while price advances.

Canonical: https://patternsradar.com/screener/volume-building

```sift
where volume rising for 3 bars and close > close[-3]
```

Rising volume into a rising price is the textbook confirmation that a move has participation behind it. Three strictly increasing sessions is a demanding version of that test, and demanding is the point — the loose version matches half the market.

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/volume-building.