Breakout Stock Screener
Find stocks breaking out of ranges, 52-week highs, moving averages and volatility squeezes — described in plain English, confirmed on volume, returned as a watchlist in seconds.
What counts as a breakout
A breakout is price leaving a level it has respected for a while — a 52-week high, the top of a sideways range, a long moving average, or the edge of a volatility squeeze. Traders watch them because a clean break with real volume often starts a new move.
The hard part is finding them in time. A breakout screener checks every stock against your definition of a breakout and returns the few that broke today. Sortefi takes that definition in plain English, so you can be as specific as you like.
Breakout screens you can run
Highs: new 52-week highs, or a close above the highest high of the last 20, 50 or 100 days. Ranges: stocks that stayed inside a tight band for weeks and closed above it today. Moving averages: crossing above the 50 or 200-day average. Squeezes: Bollinger Band width or ATR at a multi-month low followed by a close outside the bands.
Confirmation is part of the same sentence: volume above 1.5x or 2x its average, a close (not just a wick) above the level, ADX above 25. Daily candles are the usual choice, but the same screens run on 5-minute to weekly charts — an opening-range break is just a breakout on a 15-minute chart.
How to write a good breakout screen
Say what level is being broken ("its 20-day high", "a 3-week range"), how you want it confirmed ("closed above", "on 2x volume") and when ("today", "in the last 3 days"). Name the market or index if you want to narrow it — "Nifty 500 stocks" or "US stocks". If something important is missing, Sortefi asks one short question.
The matches come back as symbols for your TradingView or broker watchlist. Sortefi doesn't predict which breakouts will hold, send alerts or place trades — it finds the ones that match your rules.
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Questions traders ask first
A screener that finds stocks breaking above (or below) an important level — a 52-week high, a trading range, a moving average — usually with a volume condition to confirm it. Sortefi lets you describe the breakout in plain English.