29 Aug 2026
Scans that say "most of the last ten days"
How count() and countstreak() let a scan ask for seven of the last ten days instead of all ten, with four NSE scans built on them and the limits of both functions.
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Guides to the setups the scan library is built from — what each one means, when it works, and how to test it before trusting it. Every article ends in a scan you can run.
29 Aug 2026
Scanning the candle body, not the close
Most scans read the close and ignore the rest of the candle. abs(), greatest() and least() in Sift let a scan describe the body: its size against the stock's own norm, and where the whole of it sits. Three ready NSE scans.
Read the guide →28 Aug 2026
How to find momentum stocks on the NSE
The five fields a screener uses to measure momentum, the filters that stop a strength ranking turning into a chase list, and four ready NSE scans.
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RSI divergence screener for NSE stocks
What regular bullish and bearish RSI divergence measure, why a single-bar scan has to approximate them with offsets, what that approximation costs, and two ready NSE scans.
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Stock screening in India: a complete guide
What a stock screener does and does not do, end-of-day versus realtime, the eight setup families for NSE stocks, why delivery percentage matters here, and how to check a scan before trusting it.
Read the guide →16 Aug 2026
Candlestick patterns need context
Why a raw candlestick scan returns noise on the NSE, the three context conditions that make a pattern worth looking at, and the scans with each one built in.
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Translating Chartink formulas to Sift
Side-by-side translations of the four Chartink idioms: the crossover, the streak, the N-day high and the volume multiple, plus what has no equivalent here.
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How to read a scan's hit rate
What the 1, 5 and 20-day columns in the hit-rate panel measure, the two misreadings that flatter bad scans, and what the replay deliberately leaves out.
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Screen NSE stocks with Claude over MCP
Connect Claude Code or any MCP client to 30 years of NSE end-of-day data: run screener scans in plain English, check them against history in the same conversation, and save the ones that survive.
Read the guide →15 Aug 2026
The 52-week high strategy on the NSE
The overhead-supply logic behind buying 52-week highs, three entry variants with the scans that run them, and the three ways the strategy loses money.
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Bollinger band squeeze screener for NSE
How to measure a squeeze with normalised band width, why compression says nothing about direction, the NR7 single-bar version, and the NSE scans for both.
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Choosing a stock screener: what to look for
Five capabilities that separate stock screeners: outcome measurement, event conditions, delivery data, data depth and an API, with what each one is worth.
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Delivery percentage explained
What delivery percentage measures, why a fixed threshold like 60% is the wrong way to read it, and the NSE scans built on deviation from a stock's own baseline.
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Golden cross and death cross on NSE stocks
What the 50/200-day crosses record, why they fire late by design, the whipsaw tax in sideways markets, and how to check their hit rate on NSE stocks.
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How to backtest a stock scan, no code needed
A five-step method for testing a screener scan against history, from stating the claim to spotting the three biases that fake a good result.
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The Open High Low (OHL) scan for NSE stocks
What the OHL condition actually measures, why open = low reads as buyer control, and how to run both sides of it across the NSE on end-of-day data, free.
Read the guide →15 Aug 2026
RSI screener guide for NSE stocks
Why a bare RSI-below-30 scan returns falling knives, the one condition that fixes it, the RSI levels that matter inside trending stocks, and four ready NSE scans.
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A swing trading screener for India
A working swing screen in three layers: trend, setup, trigger. How to build each one for NSE stocks, which presets express them, and how to check the screen against history.
Read the guide →15 Aug 2026
Volume breakout screener for Indian stocks
Why volume is the one input that can't be faked, what 2× average volume actually implies, three ready NSE volume breakout scans, and the mistakes that make volume screeners useless.
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