A multi-scan engine that groups stocks by the behaviour they are showing right now — momentum spurts, trend continuation, fresh strength — and lets you filter down to the ones you can actually trade.
Different scan types answer different questions. This tool runs them side by side so you can compare what the market is offering today instead of forcing one strategy onto every session.
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.
Analytics — Swing is a scanner built around scan types. Rather than a single list of "good stocks", it sorts the market into behaviours: stocks having a short-term spurt, stocks with building bullish momentum, and other recognisable conditions. Each scan type answers a specific question about what a stock is doing right now.
Layered on top are filters that decide which of those results are relevant to you: whether the stock trades in the derivatives segment, whether it is available for margin trading, whether you are looking for long or short setups, and how many days of history to look back over.
The output is deliberately meant to be narrowed. A scanner that returns 200 names has not helped you; the point of the filters is to reach a list short enough that you can look at every chart before the next session.
Appearing in a scan is a starting point, not a conclusion. The chart decides whether there is a trade; the scanner only decides which charts are worth opening.
Swing trading is decided in the evening, calmly, not during market hours in a hurry.
Swing traders
Produce tomorrow's watchlist in fifteen minutes, using the same criteria every day so results are comparable.
Working professionals
Run the scan after the close, place orders in the morning, and let the position work without needing to watch a screen.
Intraday traders
Use short-term spurt scans to know which names are already in play before the session opens.
Beginners
See what different setups look like as a group, which teaches pattern recognition much faster than looking at random charts.
Multiple scan types
Ask different questions of the same market instead of forcing one template onto every condition.
Layered filters
Segment, direction and conviction filters cut hundreds of results down to a workable handful.
History view
See how often a stock has qualified recently, which separates a fresh signal from a stale one.
Long and short
The market falls too. Being able to scan both directions keeps you useful in every environment.
Tradability filters
Restrict to segments you can actually trade with your account and capital.
Repeatable process
Same scan, same filters, every day — the consistency is where the edge actually lives.
A control strip above a results table. Almost all of your time is spent in the control strip.
Filters collapse into a scrollable row and the table scrolls sideways, so the workflow survives on a phone even though the scan itself is easier on a larger screen.
Run this after the close and your morning becomes execution rather than decision-making.
Decide the direction first
Look at the broad market before you scan. In a weak market, scanning for longs produces plenty of results and very few that work.
Choose one scan type
Start with a single behaviour rather than all scans at once. One clean idea beats a merged list you cannot interpret.
Apply the segment filter
Restrict to what you can trade. If your account only handles cash-segment delivery, F&O results are a distraction.
Turn on high conviction
When results are numerous, the conviction filter is the fastest way to reach a list you can actually review.
Check the history column
A stock qualifying for the first time is a fresh signal. One that has qualified for many consecutive days may already be extended.
Open every remaining chart
Aim for a list short enough to review completely — usually five to fifteen names. Reject anything without a clear level to place a stop under.
Write the plan before the open
Entry trigger, stop-loss level, first target and quantity, decided while the market is closed and your judgement is calm.
The controls and columns that matter, and how to set them.
| Field | What it tells you | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Scan Type | The behaviour a stock is displaying — a short-term spurt, building momentum, and so on. | Match it to your holding period. Spurt scans suit shorter holds; momentum scans suit multi-day swings. |
| Long / Short | The direction of the setups returned. | Set it from the market environment, not from preference. |
| F&O filter | Restricts results to stocks with derivative contracts. | Useful if you want the option of hedging or trading with leverage; these are also the most liquid names. |
| Cash filter | Restricts to cash-segment stocks. | The right choice for delivery-based swing trading without derivatives. |
| MTF filter | Restricts to margin-eligible stocks. | Only relevant if you actually use margin — leverage magnifies losses as efficiently as gains. |
| High conviction | Shows only the strongest qualifying results. | Your primary tool when the unfiltered list is too long to review properly. |
| Day buttons | How many days back the scan looks. | A shorter window finds fresh signals; a longer one shows which names keep reappearing. |
| Prv High | The previous high level for the stock. | A natural trigger point and a reference for where a stop-loss belongs. |
| History | How often the stock has qualified recently. | First appearances are fresh. Long streaks mean the move is mature and the easy part may be over. |
The setups this scanner surfaces, and how each one behaves.
After the close, the momentum scan with the cash filter and high conviction returns eleven stocks. Three appear for the first time, five have qualified for three days running, and three have qualified for eight days straight.
The eight-day names have already made most of their move — buying there means a wide stop and limited room. The first-appearance names are fresh but unproven. The three-day group is usually the sweet spot: the trend has established itself but has not yet exhausted itself. Reviewing all eleven charts and keeping only those with a clear level to trade against reduces the list to four.
Four names with defined entries and stops beats eleven names with vague intentions. The rejection is the work.
Consistency is the entire point. Change the market you scan, not your process.
✅ Do this
⛔ Avoid this
Treating the scan result as the trade. A scanner narrows the universe; it does not tell you where to enter, where to exit, or how much to buy. Traders who skip that second half tend to blame the scanner for what was really a missing plan.
It is a tool that filters the entire market down to stocks currently showing a specific behaviour — momentum, a breakout, a pullback — so you review a handful of relevant charts instead of thousands of irrelevant ones.
Start with market direction, choose one scan type that matches your holding period, apply filters for the segment you trade, then review every remaining chart and keep only those with a clear entry trigger and a nearby stop-loss level.
Few enough that you can genuinely track each one — typically five to fifteen. A long watchlist looks thorough but usually means none of the names get proper attention.
It restricts results to the strongest qualifying stocks rather than everything that technically meets the criteria. It is the most useful control when the unfiltered list is too long to review.
Match it to your account. F&O names are the most liquid and allow hedging; cash-segment filtering suits delivery-based swing trading. Use the margin filter only if you deliberately intend to use leverage.
How many recent sessions the stock has qualified in. A first appearance is a fresh signal, while a long streak means the move is mature and you would be entering late with a wider stop.
After the market closes. Swing decisions are best made when prices are not moving, so you can plan entries and stops without pressure and simply execute in the morning.
Short-term spurt scans are useful for knowing which names are already in play. For actual intraday entries, a live scanner and previous-day levels will serve you better.
Because no scan predicts the future. Scans identify conditions that have historically preceded continuation more often than not — which still means a meaningful share of them fail. That is precisely what the stop-loss is for.
No. Start with scan type and direction only. Add filters when the result list is too long to review properly, not as a habit.
Many traders require at least 1:2 — risking 3% to make 6%. The exact number matters less than checking it before entry, because that check alone eliminates most poor setups.
Only if short selling suits your account and experience. Even if you never short, running a short scan is a useful health check: a long list of short candidates tells you the market is deteriorating.
Every technical term above, written for someone who has never traded before.
Holding for a few days to a few weeks.
Swing trading targets one leg of a move rather than every wiggle. Decisions are made after market hours, positions are held overnight, and stops are wider than intraday. For anyone with a job, it is usually the most practical style.
The tendency of strong stocks to keep being strong.
Momentum is the observation that recent winners tend to keep outperforming for a while. It is the engine behind most scanners: instead of hunting for hidden value, you sort the market by what is already working and look for the cleanest way to join it.
A short, curated list of stocks you are actually tracking.
A scanner produces candidates; a watchlist is what you commit to watching tomorrow morning. Keeping it short is the point. Most traders can meaningfully follow five to fifteen names, and a bloated watchlist quietly turns into no watchlist at all.
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.
How much you stand to make versus what you risk.
If your stop is 3% away and your target is 9%, the ratio is 1:3. A trader can be wrong more often than right and still finish ahead when the ratio is favourable. Checking it before entry is the single fastest way to filter out mediocre setups.
Deciding how much to buy, not just what to buy.
Position size is what converts a stop-loss into a rupee amount. If you risk a fixed slice of capital per trade — many traders use 1% — then a wider stop simply means a smaller quantity. This one habit does more for long-term survival than any indicator.
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.
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.
A temporary dip inside an ongoing uptrend.
Trends do not travel in a straight line. A pullback is the pause where early buyers take profit and the stock drifts back toward a moving average or a prior breakout level. Buying a pullback in a strong trend usually offers a tighter stop-loss than chasing the same stock at its highs.
Looking for a term that is not here? The full trading glossary covers every concept used across these guides.