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Volume Filters
Price can be pushed around — volume is harder to fake. These filters read demand through it.
Pocket Pivot
An up day, closing in the top half of its range, whose volume beats the heaviest down day of the previous 10 days (a Morales/Kacher concept). Buyers just overwhelmed the biggest recent bout of selling — a subtle accumulation footprint that often appears inside quiet consolidations, before the obvious breakout. The PP Streak (3+) and Multi PP (≥6/10d) checkboxes select clusters, and the PP column counts them over 30 days.
The Pocket Pivot guide covers it properly: why the comparison is against down days, how it differs from a Fresh Bull, a worked example, what the clusters are actually worth, and the edge cases.
Highest Volume events
HVM / HVQ / HVY
HVMHVQHVYHighest Volume of the Month / Quarter / Year: within the last 3 sessions, the coin printed its single heaviest volume day of the last ~30 / ~90 / ~365 days. The longer the window, the rarer and more meaningful the event — HVY is the strongest (and supersedes HVQ and HVM when several fire together).
Note these flags don't care whether the day was up or down — a yearly-high volume day can also mark capitulation. Check the candle: a big up day on yearly-high volume is demand; a big down day is distribution or a flush.
U/D Ratio
The Up/Down Volume Ratio compares total volume on up days vs down days over the last 30 days. Above 1 means more volume flowed in on rising days — accumulation. Below 1 means sellers had the heavier hand — distribution.
Swing traders typically want 1.25–1.5 or higher inside a valid setup. Timing matters: a sky-high U/D after a coin has already broken out is expected and tells you nothing — the informative reading is a strong ratio while price is still basing.
Scan recipes
Quiet accumulation
- 1Moving Average card → 🔑 Rising 50 EMA on
- 2U/D Ratio slider → minimum 1.25
- 3Volatility card → BB Gap % capped low, so price is still basing
→ Uptrending coins where a month of volume has leaned to the buyers while price is still tight — accumulation you can see before the breakout.
Heavy demand
- 1Fresh Bull Volume card → Fresh Bull Vol on
- 2Volume card → HVQ (or HVY) on
→ The strongest volume statement the screener can make — breakout day on quarterly/yearly-record volume. Rare; often empty.
How to combine them
- Start from the 🔑 Rising 50 EMA filter so you only look at volume events inside uptrends.
- Pocket Pivot + U/D Ratio > 1 is a natural pair: a fresh buying day inside a month of net accumulation.
- HVQ/HVY firing together with a Fresh Bull is the strongest volume statement the screener can make — the Realtime Alerts page highlights such multi-condition coins as High Priority.