# 52-week high breakout — NSE scan

> A close at the highest level in a year, on volume half again its own 20-day average. The Darvas entry, written out.

Canonical: https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/52-week-high-breakout

```sift
where close is highest in 52w and rel_volume > 1.5
```

Nobody who bought this stock in the last twelve months is sitting on a loss. A yearly high leaves no overhead supply, nobody waiting to get out even. The volume filter is there because plenty of stocks drift up to new highs on nothing much and fall straight back through the level.

Category: [Breakouts](https://dev.patternsradar.com/scans/breakouts.md). Default universe: top 500 by 20-day turnover.

Guides: [Stock screening in India: a complete guide](https://dev.patternsradar.com/blog/stock-screening-india-guide.md), [How to read a scan's hit rate](https://dev.patternsradar.com/blog/how-to-read-scan-hit-rate.md).

More breakouts: [Within 3% of the 52-week high](https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/near-52-week-high.md), [Volume breakout](https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/volume-breakout.md), [Volume shockers](https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/volume-shockers.md), [20-day channel breakout](https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/donchian-breakout.md), [Bollinger band breakout](https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/bollinger-breakout.md).

The rendered page runs this scan against the latest session and can replay it across the last 250 sessions to measure its hit rate: https://dev.patternsradar.com/screener/52-week-high-breakout.

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Price and delivery data from the [eod2](https://github.com/BennyThadikaran/eod2) dataset: National Stock Exchange of India end-of-day files, split- and bonus-adjusted, updated after each close. Not affiliated with or endorsed by NSE. PatternsRadar is a research tool. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything.