A live scanner that watches yesterday's high, low and close on every stock and tells you the moment today's price breaks one of them.
Yesterday's extremes are the levels the whole market can see. HLC Analytics turns them into a live signal list so you know which stocks are breaking out, which are breaking down, and which are going nowhere.
The tool opens inside your BreakPoint account. If you are not signed in yet you will be asked to sign in first, and access depends on your active plan.
HLC stands for High, Low and Close — the three prices that summarise what happened yesterday. Almost every intraday trader watches them, which is exactly why they matter: when enough participants act at the same price, that price becomes real support or resistance.
HLC Analytics keeps those three levels in view for every stock in the index you choose, compares them against the live price, and labels each stock with a bias. Crossing yesterday's high is a strong long bias; losing yesterday's low is a strong short bias; drifting above or below yesterday's close is a milder version of each; and everything else is neutral.
The result is a shortlist of stocks that have actually done something meaningful today, rather than a list of stocks that merely moved a few percent.
A break that happens in the first minute of trading is the least reliable kind. Many traders wait for the first fifteen minutes to settle before acting on a signal.
Most intraday losses come from entering at a random price with no logical stop-loss. Levels solve that problem.
Intraday traders
Get a clean, objective trigger — price crossing a level everyone else is watching — instead of guessing entries.
Beginners
Yesterday's high and low are the easiest levels to understand and the easiest place to learn disciplined stop-loss placement.
Options traders
Use a stock or index breaking its previous-day level as the trigger for a directional option position, with a defined invalidation point.
Swing traders
A stock closing above yesterday's high day after day is the clearest sign that a trend is intact.
Objective triggers
A level is either broken or it is not. There is nothing to interpret and nothing to argue with.
Obvious stop-loss
When the entry is a broken level, the stop belongs just the other side of it. Risk is defined before you enter.
Live monitoring
The scanner watches the whole index for you, so you notice the break as it happens instead of an hour later.
Index-level focus
Restrict the scan to the universe you actually trade, from large caps down to micro caps.
Graded bias
Strong and mild signals are separated, so you can tell a decisive break from a gentle drift.
Works every single day
Every session produces a new high, low and close, so the tool never runs out of fresh levels.
One filter bar and one live table. The table is where all the information is.
The table scrolls horizontally on a phone, with the symbol and signal columns kept in view so you can swipe through the numbers without losing track of which stock you are reading.
The routine is the same every morning, which is precisely what makes it work.
Pick your universe
Select the index you actually trade. If you only trade liquid large caps, scanning Microcap 250 will fill your screen with stocks you should not touch.
Let the open settle
Give the market its first few minutes. The opening auction produces erratic prices that break levels and immediately reverse.
Filter to one bias
Decide whether you are looking for longs or shorts today, then filter the table to that bias rather than watching both at once.
Read the break column
Check which level actually broke. A stock above yesterday's high is in a different situation from one that has merely drifted above yesterday's close.
Confirm the strength
Look at how far price is from the level and whether it is holding above it. A stock hugging the level with no follow-through is likely to fall back.
Place the stop under the level
The broken level becomes your invalidation point. If price closes back under it, the reason for the trade is gone.
Manage toward the next level
The 52-week range and the previous-day extremes give you the next natural reference points to take partial profits at.
Each column and the decision it is meant to support.
| Field | What it tells you | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Symbol | The stock being scanned. | Open it on a chart before acting — the scanner finds the level, the chart tells you whether the break is orderly. |
| Signal | The current bias: strong long, strong short, mild long, mild short, or neutral. | Strong signals mean a previous-day extreme has broken. Mild signals mean price is only above or below the previous close. |
| LTP • Δ vs Close | The live price and its distance from yesterday's close. | Judge how much of the move you have already missed. A large gap means a worse entry, not a better one. |
| Prev H / L / C | Yesterday's high, low and closing price. | These are your levels. The high is resistance, the low is support, the close is the day's balance point. |
| Breaks | Which of the three levels price has crossed today. | Tells you the quality of the setup at a glance without opening a chart. |
| 52W Range | Where price sits within the past year. | A previous-day-high break that is also near a yearly high has far more room than one inside a long downtrend. |
| Trade Cue | A short plain-language summary of what the row is showing. | A quick sanity check that your own reading of the row matches what the tool is describing. |
| Last Update | When the row last refreshed. | Confirms the data is live before you commit money to it. |
Four situations cover almost everything this scanner will show you.
A Nifty 500 stock closed yesterday at ₹482 after a session that ranged between ₹470 and ₹486. Today it opens at ₹484, hesitates for twenty minutes, then trades through ₹486 and holds above it.
The stock spent twenty minutes below the level and then broke it, which is more meaningful than a break in the first thirty seconds — it means supply at ₹486 was absorbed rather than briefly ignored. The stop-loss belongs just under ₹486, because a return below the level says the breakout failed. Risk is roughly the distance from the entry to that point, and the first target is the next visible level above.
The trade is defined entirely by levels, not opinions. If ₹486 does not hold, you are out with a small loss and no story to argue with.
Level trading is simple, which is exactly why the discipline around it matters.
✅ Do this
⛔ Avoid this
Entering on the first tick through the level. Prices poke through levels constantly and fall straight back. Waiting for price to accept the new level — a few minutes of trading above it — costs a little entry price and avoids a great many failed breakouts.
HLC is shorthand for the High, Low and Close of a trading session. Together those three prices summarise where a stock traded, how far it stretched in each direction, and where the market finally settled.
It is the highest price anyone was willing to pay in the last full session. Trading above it means today's buyers are more aggressive than yesterday's, which is why so many intraday strategies use it as a breakout trigger.
You wait for price to trade above yesterday's high, enter in the direction of the break, and place a stop-loss just below that level. The idea is that the break attracts further buying while the level itself gives you a clear point of invalidation.
They are reliable as reference points, not as predictions. Many breaks fail. Their value is that they give an objective entry and a logical stop, so the failures are small and the successes have room to run.
A strong signal means an actual extreme has broken — yesterday's high or low. A mild signal means price is only above or below yesterday's close, which is a gentler indication that has not yet been tested against the day's extremes.
Just beyond the level that triggered the trade, with a small buffer for normal noise. The point is that if price returns through the level, the reason you entered no longer exists.
It is the riskiest moment of the day. Opening prices are volatile and often break levels only to reverse. Waiting for the first fifteen minutes filters out a large share of those false moves.
Yes. Traders often use a break of the previous-day level in the index or a heavyweight stock as the trigger for a directional option trade, with the same level acting as the point where the idea is abandoned.
Match it to what you are willing to hold. Nifty 50 gives the most liquid names, Nifty 500 widens the opportunity set, and small or micro caps offer bigger percentage moves with meaningfully harder exits.
That usually means a volatile, indecisive session with no controlling side. Those days produce the most false signals, and the sensible response is to reduce size or stand aside.
It does as a confirmation tool. A stock that repeatedly closes above the previous day's high is in a strong short-term trend, and a stock that keeps losing the previous low is not one to be holding.
Support is a price where buyers have repeatedly stepped in and stopped a fall; resistance is where sellers have repeatedly stopped a rise. Yesterday's low and high are the simplest live examples of each.
No, but context helps. Knowing whether the wider market is rising and whether volume is above average will improve your selection considerably without adding complexity.
Far fewer than the scanner produces. Most consistent intraday traders take one to three positions a day. The scanner's job is to make sure the ones you take are the best available, not to keep you busy.
Every technical term above, written for someone who has never traded before.
Price levels where buyers or sellers repeatedly show up.
Support is a level where falling prices have previously found buyers; resistance is where rising prices have previously found sellers. They are not exact lines, they are areas. Their value is practical: they give you an objective place to put a stop-loss and a realistic first target.
Price pushing past a level that had been holding it back.
A breakout is the moment supply at a level runs out and price moves into open space above it. The quality of a breakout depends on what comes with it — volume, a strong close near the high, and a market that is not falling apart around it. Breakouts on thin volume are the most common trap for new traders.
The mirror image of a breakout, to the downside.
Price loses a level that had been supporting it and accelerates lower. For a long-only trader a breakdown is usually an exit signal rather than an entry, and it is the reason stop-losses are placed just under support rather than at a random percentage.
The price at which you accept the idea was wrong.
A stop-loss is decided before entry, not after. Its job is not to be right, it is to keep any single loss small enough that the next twenty trades still matter. Placing it under a structural level — a support zone, the low of the breakout candle — is more useful than a round percentage.
A bar showing open, high, low and close for one period.
The thick body spans the open and close; the thin wicks show how far price travelled and was rejected. A long lower wick means sellers pushed price down and buyers took it all back — often more informative than the closing price alone.
The price of the most recent trade.
LTP is the number that flickers on every screen. It is the last price at which a buyer and seller agreed, not necessarily the price you will get — in an illiquid stock the next available price can be noticeably different.
The highest and lowest price of the past year.
The range gives instant context to a price. A stock trading near the top of its yearly range is in demand; one near the bottom has been under sustained supply. Where price sits in that range tells you far more than the raw number does.
How easily you can get in and out at a fair price.
A liquid stock has enough daily turnover that your order does not move the price. Illiquid names look attractive on a scanner because their percentage moves are large, but the spread between buy and sell prices quietly eats those gains, and exiting in a fall can be difficult.
Positions opened and closed inside the same session.
Intraday trading avoids overnight news risk but demands speed and discipline, because every decision has to happen while the market is moving. Costs matter more here than anywhere else — commission and spread are paid on every round trip.
Looking for a term that is not here? The full trading glossary covers every concept used across these guides.