Daily Setups
…Coded pattern scan across the liquid US universe. Small pullback trends, bull flags, cup & handles, flat bases, VCP, pocket pivots — ranked by setup quality.
What this is scanning for
- Small Pullback Trend — a multi-week regime, not a single bar. 25-bar staircase uptrend (close > 20EMA > rising 50SMA), positive linear-regression slope with R² ≥ 0.6, max drawdown ≤ 6%, every pullback run ≤ 3 bars, ≥ 2 distinct pullback episodes.
- Bull Flag — 3-10 bar pole (+10% or more), 3-15 bar flag, range < 50% of pole height, retracement < 50%.
- Pocket Pivot — up day on volume that exceeds the largest 10-day down-day volume, while still based near the 20EMA.
- Cup & Handle — 30-130 bar U-shaped cup (12-40% depth, lips within 4%), 5-20 bar handle (5-15% pullback), buy above handle high.
- Flat Base — 25-50 bar sideways base ≤ 15% range, built after a ≥ 20% prior leg up.
- VCP — 2-5 progressively shallower pullbacks (each < 75% of the prior) in an uptrend with volume drying up; final contraction ≤ 10%.
- Universe pre-filter— price > $5, 20-day avg vol > 300K, ATR(14) ≥ 1%, ATR(5) ≥ 0.8%, and trimmed ATR(5) ≥ 0.8% (drops the largest-TR bar in the last 5 to catch fresh merger gaps whose deal-day jump props up plain ATR even though the post-gap tape is pinned).