Each screen hunts a different kind of setup. A stock either meets the published definition or it does not — the same test runs across the whole market after every close.
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SETUP SCREEN
VCP — Volatility Contraction Pattern
Pullbacks getting progressively shallower on falling volume as price presses against the pivot. The tightest of the screens, and the rarest.
What this screen requires
- Contractions
- 2–6
- Pullbacks getting shallower
- required
- Volatility ratio
- ≤ 1.00
- Distance to pivot
- ≤ 15%
- Relative strength
- not required
109 qualifying structures/events from 650 VCP candidates examined.
- RS
- 86
- Broke out
- 21 Aug
- Pivot
- 19,851.00
- Above pivot
- 9.2%
- Base
- 11 weeks
- Depth
- 15.1%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 84
- Pivot
- 336.30
- To pivot
- 6.1%
- Base
- 4 weeks
- Depth
- 11.6%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 83
- Pivot
- 894.00
- To pivot
- 13.9%
- Base
- 4 weeks
- Depth
- 16.9%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 68
- Pivot
- 2,427.40
- To pivot
- 1.5%
- Base
- 13 weeks
- Depth
- 13.4%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 69
- Pivot
- 593.00
- To pivot
- 1.9%
- Base
- 3 weeks
- Depth
- 12.5%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 78
- Pivot
- 6,100.00
- To pivot
- 14.9%
- Base
- 9 weeks
- Depth
- 12.9%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 76
- Pivot
- 265.00
- To pivot
- 3.8%
- Base
- 12 weeks
- Depth
- 19.6%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 96
- Broke out
- 18 Aug
- Pivot
- 1,443.00
- Above pivot
- 5.3%
- Base
- 9 weeks
- Depth
- 20.1%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 76
- Pivot
- 2,283.50
- To pivot
- 6.1%
- Base
- 23 weeks
- Depth
- 24.0%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 90
- Pivot
- 992.25
- Above pivot
- 11.8%
- Base
- 8 weeks
- Depth
- 20.9%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 57
- Pivot
- 2,555.30
- Above pivot
- 9.1%
- Base
- 23 weeks
- Depth
- 26.8%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
- RS
- 97
- Broke out
- 6 Jul
- Pivot
- 294.00
- Above pivot
- 107.9%
- Base
- 25 weeks
- Depth
- 38.8%
- Pokes
- 1 failed
Information only, not investment advice. A stock appearing here meets a published definition; it is a starting point for your own work, not a conclusion.