Every rule this site runs, every kind of evidence, and every term on its pages, explained in plain words with tonight’s number beside it. 57 rules, 5 families, one convention for the record. Free to read; the names behind the numbers are on the desk.
The broadest 'is this a bull or bear phase' filter. On most days the majority of the universe is above it, so being below it is the rarer state.
Outperforming over half a year. Money has been rotating into these consistently.
Above the 50, 150 and 200-day averages in the right order, with the 200-day rising.
Every short-term average lined up bullishly, with price on top. Momentum is aligned across timeframes rather than on one.
The 200-day average is the line most investors use to separate a bull from a bear phase.
Momentum rolling over: the MACD line has just crossed below its signal line.
The most-watched long-term crossover in the market. Slow, but widely acted on.
The bearish mirror of the golden cross. Late by nature, but it changes how funds treat a name.
The most common momentum trigger. It confirms a turn that has already begun rather than predicting one.
Trending up with small daily swings: among the lowest 60-day volatility in the universe while above its averages.
A shorter-fuse version of NR7. Quiet days cluster before loud ones.
Today's high-to-low was the smallest in a week. Volatility contracts before it expands — it does not say which way.
Volume many times a normal day. Something is happening — news, a block deal, or a breakout.
No trapped sellers overhead — nobody who bought above is waiting to get out at breakeven.
Steady accumulation rather than a one-day spike. Counted as days-up-out-of-five rather than an unbroken streak, which one flat day would end.
Not just up, but up more than the companies it is compared with. Sector medians come from our own universe grouped by NSE industry, so this is leadership among peers a fund manager would actually weigh it against.
Broke above every price of the last year. Nobody holding it is underwater.
Opened above yesterday's close and finished strong instead of fading. The fade is the common outcome, so holding is the signal.
Traded in a narrow band for three months, and is now pushing through the top of it. The tighter the band, the cleaner the breakout.
An up day where an unusually large share of the volume was taken into demat accounts rather than squared off by the close: delivery at least one and a half times its own 20-day median, and above 40% of the day's volume.
Over the last five sessions a much larger share of the volume than usual was taken into demat accounts, and the price barely moved: shares changing hands from traders to holders without a move to show for it yet. Delivery averaged at least 1.3 times its 20-day median, the week's move within 3%.
The day's turnover came in far fewer, far larger trades than usual: the footprint of size being dealt, whoever was dealing it. Read with the price: large tickets on an up day and on a down day are different facts.
Nothing clever here. Companies that have simply kept growing and kept earning, which is rarer than it sounds and is the base most long-term positions are built on.
The revenue condition matters. Profit can leap on a one-off — an asset sale, a tax writeback — and look identical in the numbers. Requiring revenue to rise too filters most of those out, though not all: check the filing before believing it.
Margin expansion on rising revenue is operating leverage — the same business getting more profitable as it scales. Margin up on FALLING revenue is cost-cutting, which is a different and more fragile story, so revenue growth is required too.
Not just growth — a SECOND derivative. A company growing 20% after growing 10% is telling you something a company growing a steady 20% is not. Acceleration is what forces analysts to revise, and revisions are what move price.
Fundamental improvement confirmed by the chart rather than argued against it. The slowest-moving screen here: its members change over months, not days.
A deliberately uncomfortable screen. The accounts improved and the price fell, so either the market knows something the last filing does not show, or it has overreacted. This does not tell you which — it tells you where to look.
Reported profit is an opinion; cash is a fact. When a company books earnings that never arrive as cash, the gap is sitting in receivables or inventory, and that is how accounting problems begin.
The two disciplines agreeing. Price near a high says the market has noticed; revenue growth says there is something to notice. Either alone is common; together is not.
A company that owes less than it holds cannot be forced by a lender. It is the cheapest form of resilience there is, and it is rarer in India than most people assume.
On the risk side deliberately. The accounts have deteriorated and the chart has not caught up yet. Sometimes the market is right and the next quarter recovers; sometimes it is the last quiet moment before a de-rating.
The single number a fundamental investor reaches for first. A business earning 18% on its capital is compounding; one earning 8% is running to stand still. The leverage condition matters because return on capital is trivially inflated by borrowing more.
On the risk side deliberately. This is not proof of anything wrong — a genuinely growing company funds working capital and shows exactly this pattern. It is a reason to open the cash flow statement rather than to trust the profit line.
The most violent re-rating in the market, and the least reliable. One profitable quarter after a loss is not a trend — it is a data point. The measured edge on this screen is the only thing worth trusting about it.
Leverage is only a problem when earnings fall, which is precisely the combination here. Interest does not decline with profit.
The short-term fundamental screen. Reaction to a result is not instant — it plays out over days as institutions read the filing and revise. This looks for companies in that window, which is the only place a fundamental fact behaves like a short-term signal at all.
The people who run the company own more of it than they did a quarter ago, by the shareholding pattern they filed. Creeping acquisition, a preferential issue or a buyback can all do this; the filing says how much, not why.
The people who know the company best added to their holding while the market was marking it down. The filing gives the size of the purchase, not the reason; the price column gives the context.
Buyers and sellers finished level. Indecision — it matters most after a long run.
Still above its long-term average, but cooled off short term: the price has come back to its 50-day line without breaking the longer trend.
Today's whole range fits inside yesterday's. A pause, and often a coil before a move.
Sold off hard while still above its long-term average. The riskiest slice here — cheap and still falling looks identical to cheap and about to turn.
Sold off hard during the day, then closed back near the top. Buyers defended a level.
Yesterday closed down; today opened lower and closed above yesterday's open, swallowing the whole bar. Buyers took control within a session.
Finished the session at its strongest point. Buyers were still bidding at the bell.
Yesterday closed up; today opened higher and closed below yesterday's open. Sellers took control within a session.
Pushed up during the day and gave it all back by the close. Sellers defended a level.
Almost no wick — it opened near the low, closed near the high, and never looked back.
Close to its worst price in a year. Every recent buyer is losing money, and they sell into strength — that is what makes these hard to hold.
Run up a long way, fast: the close sits more than 15% above its own 50-day average, which is where most such runs have historically paused or given back.
Slipped under the average most investors use to separate a bull from a bear phase.
Its peers are doing something it is not. When a whole sector moves and one name stays behind, the gap is either an opportunity or a reason, and the filings usually say which.
Down meaningfully on well above-average volume — a heavy session, whoever was selling.
A down day where the selling was delivered, not squared off: the shares left demat accounts. Heavier than an intraday shakeout, and the kind of session that tends to have a holder behind it rather than a trader.
The people who run the company own less of it than they did a quarter ago, by the shareholding pattern they filed. A stake sale, a dilution or a pledge being invoked can all do this; the filing says how much, not why.
A large share of the promoters' own holding is pledged as collateral. If the price falls far enough, the lender can sell those shares into the market, which is why pledged stakes fall harder in a bad week.