Everything traders ask
before they make this their daily driver.
Sixty-plus answers, grouped by what you're trying to do — find a setup, read a chart, build a watchlist, narrow 90 stocks down to 5 trades. Skim the categories, expand what's interesting. The search box at the top filters in real time.
No questions match — try a broader keyword, or browse a category from the left.
Getting started
Five minutes from "what is this" to "I have a shortlist."
What does this app actually do — is it a screener, a chart tool, or both?
Both, designed to feel like one. The pattern engine flags 23 high-conviction setups across the NSE F&O universe every evening; each card opens an inline chart with entry, stop and target lines drawn directly from the pattern. So instead of bouncing between a scanner, a charting site and a spreadsheet, you do "what's worth looking at" → "does the chart agree?" → "is it on my watchlist?" in one screen.
Where do I start if I just opened the app for the first time?
Top-left, set Daily and F&O. Land on the Setups tab, sort by Score, and skim the top 10 cards — that's the engine's curated "tonight's homework" list. Click any card to expand the chart inline. Most users have an actionable shortlist within five minutes.
What's the difference between Daily / Weekly / Monthly?
Same engine, different bar interval — so they're effectively three different scanners.
- Daily — near-term swings (3–15 day holds). Most active traders live here.
- Weekly — position holders (1–3 month holds). Smooths daily noise; VCPs and bull flags look much cleaner.
- Monthly — long-only investors and "is this in a multi-year base?" checks.
A daily breakout that's also breaking out on weekly is usually higher conviction than either alone.
Is the data live (intraday) or end-of-day?
End-of-day. Setups compute from the official NSE feed (bhavcopy and corporate-action data), refreshed automatically after market close. The Intraday timeframe is hidden by design — EOD signal-to-noise is much higher for the kind of swing setups this tool surfaces, and live ticks tend to produce false positives that resolve themselves by 3:30 pm.
How fresh is today's data? When does it update?
Refreshed automatically after market close. By the time you sit down for end-of-day review, today's bars are already in. Open the app pre-market and you'll see yesterday's close — there's a date stamp in the corner so you always know what bar you're looking at.
What's the difference between the F&O list and All Stocks?
F&O (~200 names) — stocks with active futures and options on NSE. Higher liquidity, tighter spreads, easier to size a position, and you can hedge with options. Default for most active traders.
All Stocks (~7,000) — the wider universe, useful when you're hunting early-stage breakouts before institutional volume arrives. One click flips between the two.
What do the numbers next to each tab name mean?
Live counts of items in that view, after your current filters apply. So Setups (12) means 12 stocks match your active universe + bookmark + query filters. It's a real-time readout of how much work is in front of you.
Setups & patterns
23 detectors. You don't need all of them.
Which setup should I trade — there are 23 of them?
You don't have to use all 23. Most users settle on three to five favourites that match their style.
A solid starter pack:
- HC Buy — the engine's highest-conviction filter; stacks multiple confirmations.
- ATH Breakout — clean trend-following, no overhead resistance.
- VCP — Minervini-style tight bases for swing entries.
The setup-chip bar at the top of Setups lets you toggle which patterns appear. Pick the ones that match your style and ignore the rest.
What's the difference between ATH Breakout and New High Breakout?
ATH Breakout — stock just printed a new all-time high. No resistance overhead, the cleanest trend signal there is.
New High Breakout — a 52-week high that's not necessarily an ATH (the stock had a higher print 2–5 years ago). More frequent, includes recovery stories. Sort by Score within each bucket and you'll typically find the cleanest charts at the top.
What's the difference between Bull Flag and VCP?
Bull Flag — sharp run-up followed by a tight, downward-sloping consolidation, usually 5–15 bars. Best for momentum continuation.
VCP (Volatility Contraction Pattern, Mark Minervini's signature setup) — a series of progressively tighter pullbacks (e.g., 25% → 15% → 8%) on declining volume, signalling supply is drying up. Takes longer to form (often 4–8 weeks) but the breakouts have a stronger statistical edge.
Both bullish; VCP is "cleaner consolidation," Bull Flag is "faster pullback."
What is Pocket Pivot Volume (PPV) and why are some bars blue?
A Mike Gilmartin / Chris Kacher rule: an up-day where today's volume exceeds the highest-volume down-day in the prior 10 sessions. It's a stealth-buying signal — institutions accumulating inside a base, before the breakout is obvious. Switch to Vol: Simple mode and the engine paints those bars blue. PPV bars clustering near the 50-DMA inside a base is one of the cleanest "smart money is here" tells you'll find.
What does HC Buy / HC Sell mean? Is it a strict signal?
HC = High Conviction. It's not a single pattern — it's a stack: trend alignment, base structure, volume confirmation, and relative strength all agreeing. The engine only marks HC when several independent factors line up.
No signal is infallible, but the false-positive rate is the lowest of any tag in this tool. Treat it as the equivalent of "the names I'd actually open a position on tonight."
Why is the same stock showing up in two setup buckets?
Because it qualifies for both. Stocks setting up on multiple patterns simultaneously are typically the highest-quality candidates — that's the engine's way of saying "this isn't a coincidence." When you see the same name on two or three lists, look closely.
A stock I expected to appear isn't there — why?
Three usual reasons:
- Setup criteria are stricter than your eye-balled view — the engine checks 5–10 numerical conditions per pattern.
- It's filtered out by your active universe / bookmark / query.
- It triggered a setup yesterday and is now in "post-breakout" mode (no longer a fresh signal).
Open Custom Query, search the symbol directly, and you'll see exactly how it's currently classified.
What is the Score out of 10?
A composite quality score blending pattern tightness, volume confirmation, RS rating, sector strength, distance from key MAs, and risk-reward. Higher = more conditions aligned.
Sorting by Score is the single most useful filter — the top 5 rows almost always have the cleanest charts.
Are setups daily-only, or do they apply to weekly too?
All 23 detectors run on whichever timeframe you select. A "VCP on Weekly" is a genuine weekly-bar VCP, not a daily one rolled up. Switching timeframes effectively gives you three different scanners.
Charts
Four chart types. Honest defaults. No clutter.
Which chart type should I use — Candles, Line, Baseline, Mountain?
- Candles — the default; you'll use these 90% of the time.
- Line — decluttered close-only view, good for spotting trends in noisy stocks.
- Baseline — anchored to the median close so the green/red split is honest. The cleanest "above or below normal price?" view.
- Mountain — area fill; nice for screenshots and shared notes.
Each is one click away, so you can flip between them without reloading.
What's the Baseline anchor and why is it set to median?
Baseline charts colour above-anchor green and below-anchor red — so the anchor decides what counts as "up" or "down." We tested first-close (off-chart on long uptrends), average (skewed by outliers), and midpoint (lopsided when range is asymmetric). Median guarantees a 50/50 visual split, which is what your eye expects and what makes the chart honest.
You can drag the anchor manually if you want to peg it to a personal level (entry price, breakout pivot). The drag is local-only — it doesn't pollute other stocks.
The Baseline always splits roughly 50/50 — is that real?
Visually, yes — that's the point. By definition, the median is the value where half the closes are above and half below. So you're seeing a true "above-or-below typical price" view, not a manipulated one. It's the most defensible default when you have no contextual anchor like an entry or pivot price.
What do the coloured horizontal lines on the chart mean?
Three lines, all derived from the pattern itself — not subjective:
- Green — entry trigger (where the setup confirms).
- Red — stop loss (where the setup invalidates).
- Gold — first target (typical 1R or measured-move).
Use them as a starting point. Tighten or trail per your own rules.
Which moving averages are shown? Can I toggle them?
20-DMA, 50-DMA and 200-DMA by default — Stan Weinstein / O'Neil-style. Each can be toggled individually from the chart toolbar. The 50-DMA is especially important for PPV detection (PPV requires close ≥ 50-DMA).
Vol: Std vs Vol: Simple — what's the difference?
Std — classic up-day-green / down-day-red colouring. Best for clean trend reading.
Simple — up-day-green / down-day-grey-red, with extra emphasis on Pocket Pivot Volume (blue) and high-volume up-days. Best when you're hunting for accumulation signals.
How do I open a bigger chart?
Click the ⤢ icon on any card. The chart opens in its own tab using the same engine but with a larger canvas — useful for second-screen monitoring or sharing screenshots.
Industry & breadth
Don't trade breakouts in dead industries.
What does Industry Strength Score actually measure?
A weighted blend of: % of stocks in the industry above their 50-DMA, % at new 20/50-day highs, average RS, and recent breakout density. It answers "is this industry actually working right now, or is one stock pulling the average?"
Top-ranked industries are where breakouts have the highest follow-through rate.
Breakouts / RS Leaders / >EMA — what do those columns tell me?
- Breakouts — number of stocks in the industry that just broke out on the current timeframe.
- RS Leaders — how many stocks are in the top RS quartile.
- >EMA — how many are above their 50-DMA (a quick "in uptrend" gauge).
All three high = textbook leadership industry. Mixed = transition or chop.
Should I only trade stocks in top-strength industries?
Honestly, yes — it's the single biggest edge most traders ignore. CAN-SLIM, Stan Weinstein and IBD all build their methods around this principle. The data is consistent: breakouts in weak industries fail at roughly 2× the rate of breakouts in strong ones. Use the industry strip as a filter, not just a curiosity.
How is RS Rating calculated?
Standard IBD-style: stock's price performance over rolling 3/6/9/12 months, percentile-ranked against the entire universe. RS=80 means the stock outperformed 80% of stocks. RS≥85 is the classic "growth investor" threshold. The number you see is a point-in-time percentile, not a moving average.
What's "breadth" and how do I read the Market Breadth tab?
Breadth = how broad participation is in any move. The Market Breadth table shows market-wide stats every day: % stocks above 20/50/200-DMA, advance/decline ratio, new highs vs new lows, etc.
- Market making new highs on narrowing breadth = warning.
- Recovery off lows on broadening breadth = confirmation.
It's your daily health check — a one-minute read.
What's a healthy breadth reading vs a weak one?
Quick rules of thumb:
- >60% above 50-DMA = bullish broad market.
- <30% above 50-DMA = bearish.
- 4-week new highs > new lows, expanding = trending up.
- Reversing = caution.
The Market Breadth tab colour-codes most cells, so you can read it in five seconds.
How do I spot sector rotation early?
Watch the Sectors strip day-over-day. When industries that were dormant start climbing in strength rank — and previous leaders drop — you're watching rotation in real time. Bookmark the two or three industries you trade most and you'll notice the shift weeks before it shows up in news commentary.
Custom Query
Anything visible on a card is queryable.
What fields can I filter on?
About 30 fields: price, volume, % change, RS, market cap, PE, EPS growth, sector, industry, distance from MAs, ATR, beta, days-since-breakout, setup tag, and more. The full list lives in the Fields panel of the query box. If it's on a card, it's queryable.
How do I write something like pe < 30 AND rs > 80?
Exactly that — the parser handles natural syntax. AND, OR, NOT and parentheses all work. Numeric, string equality, and in operators are supported.
A few practical examples:
rs > 85 AND industry_rank < 10— leaders in top industries.volRatio > 1.5 AND priceChange between -2 and 2— accumulation candidates.setup in ('VCP','BullFlag') AND mcap > 5000— large-cap consolidations.
Can I save my query?
Built-in presets cover ~10 common patterns — breakout candidates, pullback to 50-DMA, low-PE momentum, and so on. Custom user-saved presets are on the roadmap. For now, paste your favourite query into a note and re-load it in seconds; the parser is fast enough that there's no friction.
Why does my query return zero results?
Usually one of:
- Typo in field name (e.g.
p/einstead ofpe). - Operator mismatch (
==vs=). - Too-strict combination — try removing one clause at a time.
The active-query indicator shows live match count; if it's 0, the query is too narrow.
How do I combine an Industry filter with a query?
Click the industry first, then run the query — they stack. Filters compose left-to-right: universe → industry → bookmark colour → query → search box. The result is the intersection.
Why is the query area highlighted yellow?
A visual cue that a custom query is currently filtering your view, with the live match count next to it. It's there so you don't forget you're looking at a subset and assume the universe is empty. Click the × on the chip to clear.
Bookmarks & watchlists
Six colours, no labels — let your brain do the rest.
What are the colour bookmarks for?
Six independent watchlists without category clutter. Suggested usage (purely your call):
- Green — high-conviction entries
- Yellow — monitoring
- Red — avoid / short candidates
- Blue — position trades
- Orange — day-after watch
- White — reference / "don't lose track of this name"
The system doesn't enforce labels — most users develop a personal mapping in a session or two.
How do I assign a colour?
Click the bookmark icon on any card and pick from the colour popover. Done. Click the same colour again to remove the bookmark.
How do I see only my green-bookmarked stocks?
Click the green chip in the colour-filter row at the top. Click again to clear. Multiple chips can be active simultaneously and the result is the union (e.g. green + blue shows both).
How do I export a watchlist to CSV?
Click the ↓ download button.
- If a colour filter is active, it exports just that colour's bookmarks.
- If no colour filter is active, it exports whatever is currently visible after universe / industry / query / search filters.
The export always matches what your eye sees — there are no hidden surprises.
Do bookmarks sync between devices?
Currently no — bookmarks live in your browser's local storage. They survive a page reload but not a device switch. Cloud sync is on the roadmap. Until then, exporting your bookmarks to CSV before a device switch is a one-second job.
Can I rename the colour categories?
Not currently — colours stay generic on purpose. Rigid labels tend to age badly as your style evolves; six colours give you enough buckets without forcing premature categorisation.
Trading workflow
From 90 stocks to 5 trades — repeatable.
I have 90 stocks in F&O — how do I narrow down to 5 actionable ideas?
The standard funnel:
- Universe: F&O
- Setup chips: HC Buy + your 1–2 favourites
- Sort by Score, take the top 10
- Open each chart inline — reject anything ugly on sight
- Cross-check industry strength; drop bottom-quartile industries
You'll be down to 3–5 names in under 10 minutes.
How do I find tomorrow's breakout candidates today?
Use the VCP, Bull Flag, and Cup with Handle setups on Daily — these flag stocks already consolidating, so the breakout hasn't happened yet. Filter by RS > 80 and top-quartile industries. You're now looking at well-positioned names just below their pivot. Set price alerts on the green entry line.
I missed the breakout — how do I find pullback re-entries?
Use the Pullback to 20/50-DMA setup (under Trend & continuation). It flags stocks that broke out, then pulled back to a key MA without breaking it — the textbook re-entry. Combine with RS > 80 and you're filtering only leaders.
How do I scan for shorts / weak stocks?
Flip universe to All Stocks (or stay on F&O if you trade options), use HC Sell or Breakdown / Lower-High-Lower-Low setups, sort by Score descending. F&O works well for shorts too — most options strategies (long puts, bear spreads) live on F&O names anyway.
How do I find accumulation (rising volume, flat price)?
Two complementary approaches:
- Custom Query —
volRatio > 1.3 AND priceChange between -2 and 2— flat price, elevated volume. - Look for stocks with multiple PPV (blue) bars in the last 10 sessions while in a base. PPV clusters are institutional fingerprints.
How do I confirm a setup with sector + industry strength?
Click into the Industry tab → top-ranked industries → drill into one. You're now looking only at qualifying setups inside proven leadership groups. Probability of follow-through goes up materially when these align — it's the closest thing to a free edge in this market.
What's a good morning routine using this tool?
About 20 minutes total:
- 5 min — Market Breadth tab → risk-on or risk-off check.
- 10 min — Setups → HC Buy → top 10 by score → quick chart scan → bookmark green for entry, yellow for watch.
- 5 min — Set price alerts on green-bookmarked levels.
You walk into the open with a written playbook, not a feed-scroll session.
What's a good end-of-day review routine?
Also ~25 minutes:
- 5 min — review your green-bookmarked stocks; did anything break out?
- 5 min — check Industry strength shifts vs yesterday.
- 10 min — run your favourite custom query for tomorrow's setup candidates → bookmark yellow.
- 5 min — quick journal entry on what worked / what didn't.
Reliability & scope
What's in, what's out, and why.
Does it cover BSE-only stocks or only NSE?
Currently NSE-only. Indian retail volume is overwhelmingly NSE; BSE-only listings are rare and usually illiquid. BSE coverage may come later if there's clear demand.
Does it work for Nifty / Bank Nifty itself?
Indices are visible in the Market Breadth tab but not as setup candidates — you can't trade an index directly. For index-level views, use the Sectors strip and Market Breadth tab; for index options, pair this with your broker's options screen.
Does it cover futures and options data?
Futures price and OI are part of the F&O metric panel on each card. Full options chains aren't yet integrated — for now, use this for the directional read, then pair with your broker's options screen for strike selection. Options-chain integration is on the roadmap.
Are SME stocks included?
No. SME has separate listing rules and very thin liquidity — including them would dilute the setup signal-to-noise ratio. We may add an opt-in SME mode later.
How are corporate actions (splits / bonus) handled?
All charts use split- and bonus-adjusted historical data from the official NSE feed (bhavcopy + corporate-action announcements) — so a 1:5 split won't show as a phantom 80% drop. Dividends are not adjusted (industry standard).
How far back does the historical data go?
Roughly 10 years of daily history per F&O stock; less for non-F&O. Long enough for weekly base detection (typically 18–30 months) and monthly trend reading (3–5 years).
UX & settings
Quick wins.
Where's the dark / light theme toggle?
The 🌙 button in the top-right header. Both themes are designed for long EOD review sessions; dark is the default because most traders prefer it for screen time. The theme persists across reloads.
How do I hide metric / badge clutter on a card?
The Card ⌄ dropdown in the toolbar lets you hide setup badges, metrics, stats, or perf rows independently. Set it once, persists across sessions. Useful when you want a minimalist view for quick scanning.
Why are some buttons hidden (like Intraday)?
Intraday is computed but not surfaced — the EOD setups have a much higher win rate, and showing intraday signals would tempt overtrading. May resurface as an opt-in toggle for users who specifically want it.
How do I reset all filters in one click?
Click the active query chip's × to clear the query, click any active bookmark colour chip again to clear it, and clear the search box. There's no single "reset all" button yet — most users prefer fine-grained control so they don't accidentally lose a useful filter.
What mouse / keyboard shortcuts exist?
Listed in full in the help guide's Shortcuts section. Highlights:
- Click any card to expand the inline chart.
- ⤢ icon — open the big chart in a new tab.
- Click bookmark icon — colour palette popover.
- Click an active filter chip again to deselect.
Edge cases & troubleshooting
When something looks off.
A stock shows ₹0 or N/A — why?
Usually means the stock was just added to F&O and we don't have enough history yet, or there's a corporate action being processed in the data pipeline. Refresh next day; should resolve automatically.
The date in the corner is wrong — what does it sync from?
The IST-based last bhavcopy date — the date of the most recent EOD bar in our data, not your system clock. So on Saturday or Sunday it shows Friday's date, which is correct. Holidays show the previous trading day.
Chart says "No data" for a stock — what to check?
One of:
- The symbol just changed name (NSE renames are common — check the announcements page).
- The stock was suspended.
- The stock was delisted.
NSE's website will confirm. We refresh symbol mappings nightly.
Bookmark count chip shows 0 even though I've bookmarked stocks?
An older build had a bug where the white-bookmark count map wasn't initialised — fixed. If you still see this, hard-refresh the page (Ctrl + Shift + R) to clear the cached JS, and the counts will refresh.
The Industry tab is empty — why?
Means none of your active filters (universe + bookmark + query) match any industry-classified stocks. The most common cause is a too-strict custom query. Clear the query and the Industry tab will populate.
Still have a question?
The Help guide goes deeper on each tab and pattern — and the app is best understood by clicking around.