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Finished the session at its strongest point. Buyers were still bidding at the bell.

Opened above yesterday's close and finished strong instead of fading. The fade is the common outcome, so holding is the signal.

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.

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 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.

Almost no wick — it opened near the low, closed near the high, and never looked back.

Leverage is only a problem when earnings fall, which is precisely the combination here. Interest does not decline with profit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Fundamental improvement confirmed by the chart rather than argued against it. The slowest screen here and the one least likely to need a stop.

The most common momentum trigger. It confirms a turn that has already begun rather than predicting one.

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.

The broadest 'is this a bull or bear phase' filter. Many traders will not go long below it.

Sold off hard during the day, then closed back near the top. Buyers defended a level.

Pushed up during the day and gave it all back by the close. Sellers defended a level.

Volume many times a normal day. Something is happening — news, a block deal, or a breakout.

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.

Today's high-to-low was the smallest in a week. Volatility contracts before it expands — it does not say which way.

A shorter-fuse version of NR7. Quiet days cluster before loud ones.