Price Action Screeners

Range-Bound Screener

Use this playbook to spot stocks oscillating cleanly between support and resistance while you wait for either a tradeable bounce or a breakout.

4usage steps
8 tunable inputs
Open Range-Bound Screener

Use the live page first, then tighten your review using this playbook.

These guide pages are designed to help you move from raw output to better shortlist decisions faster and with more confidence.

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Overview

Best in sideways markets or when strong stocks are digesting earlier advances.
Useful for planning both mean-reversion trades and future breakout watchlists.
The cleaner the range, the more useful the setup becomes.

How to use Range-Bound Screener

1

Favor repeated reactions at both edges

The best ranges show several clean respect points near support and resistance instead of random sideways drift.

2

Separate trading ranges from dead charts

A good range still has clear buyers and sellers; a dead chart just lacks participation and direction.

3

Use the screener to prepare alerts

Mark the upper and lower bounds, then decide in advance whether you want a range trade or a breakout follow-up.

4

Escalate the strongest names to your active list

Stocks ranging near highs inside strong sectors deserve more attention than weak charts chopping near lows.

Starter parameter guide

These are the main inputs you can tune on the page and the range to begin with when you want a clean first pass.

Open Page
Parameter What it does Good range to start
Market Choose the exchange universe you want to scan first. Run India and US separately.
Number of Stocks Controls how many names are scanned from the selected market. Start with 60 to 180 names.
Range Window Sets how many recent sessions are used to define the box and test whether price is really range-bound. Start around 50 to 80 trading days.
Max ADX Keeps out names already trending too strongly to be considered true ranges. Start around 18 to 25.
Max ATR % Filters for stocks whose daily movement is controlled enough to form a usable range. Start around 2% to 4%.
Max BB Width % Helps focus on tighter volatility conditions rather than wide, unstable swings. Start around 6% to 10%.
Max Position in Range % Prefers names closer to the lower half or middle of the range instead of already testing the ceiling. Start around 55% to 70%.
Min Accumulation Score Keeps only ranges with stronger evidence of constructive holding or accumulation. Start around 55 to 70.

What to prioritize in the output

A tight range near highs is usually more constructive than a wide range near lows.
Range duration matters: long, orderly ranges often produce better breakout follow-through later.
Volume pickup near one edge can hint that the balance is shifting.

Common mistakes to avoid

Trading the middle of the range where risk-reward is weakest.
Ignoring whether the range sits inside a larger downtrend.
Assuming every range will break upward.

Best way to use this playbook

Use the page to narrow the market quickly, then promote only the strongest chart-plus-context setups into your active watchlist or research queue.

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