52-Week High Scanner
Stocks making new 52-week highs are the setup universe for CANSLIM, Minervini-style Volatility Contraction Pattern (VCP), and O'Neil-era breakout trading. This scanner streams them live as the breaks happen, with volume confirmation so you're not chasing fakeouts.
Triggers for 52-week high
- Current price >= 52-week high at scan time
- Breakout volume >= 1.5x 50-day average (filters fake-break distribution)
- Optional: price > $10 (eliminates penny-stock noise)
- Optional: market-cap > $500M (institutional quality floor)
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Live ticker data for this preset streams inside the Tapeboard scanner once you sign in. The public snapshot endpoint covers the six core presets (top gainers, top losers, most active, unusual volume, gap up, gap down), with this preset's snapshot rolling out next.
Editorial notes
When this preset earns its keep
Trend continuation. The strongest stocks make new highs; the weakest make new lows. Running this scanner during a market-wide advance (breadth expanding, indices near highs) surfaces the leadership names that most often drive the next leg. Combine with a bottom-up fundamental filter for the CANSLIM play.
How Tapeboard runs this scanner
- Streaming real-time, rows update as prints land. No 10-second refresh delay.
- Click-through to full research: chart + 50 indicators, L2 book, time & sales, SEC filings, insider transactions, and news recency on every row.
- Paper-trading simulator (Terminal tier), size the setup against L2-walked fills before risking capital.
- AI research briefings summarize news and filings behind a ticker without opening six tabs.
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New 52-week highs are the bedrock of trend-continuation trading. The CANSLIM framework, William O'Neil's original methodology, and the modern Mark Minervini Volatility Contraction Pattern playbook all key off the same observation: the strongest stocks in any market environment make new highs, and the weakest make new lows. Running a 52-week-high scanner during a market-wide advance surfaces the leadership names that most often drive the next leg up.
What we filter on. Current price at or above the 52-week high at scan time. Breakout volume at or above 1.5x the 50-day average, which filters out fake-break distribution where a stock pokes above the prior high on weak volume only to fail back below it within hours. Optional price filter above $10 to eliminate penny-stock noise. Optional market-cap filter above $500 million to enforce an institutional-quality floor.
Why the volume filter is non-negotiable. A 52-week-high break without volume confirmation is the most reliable failure pattern in technical trading. The break is supposed to signal that demand has overwhelmed every prior holder who wanted out. If volume is light, that demand isn't there, and the break is just price drift that will reverse. The 1.5x 50-day average floor is the separator between a real breakout and a fake one.
How traders use this. Two modes. The first is the Minervini-style VCP entry: scan for names breaking out of a multi-week consolidation pattern at new highs, enter on the break, set the stop below the consolidation base. The second is the O'Neil-style buy-point entry: combine the 52-week-high break with strong fundamentals, accelerating earnings, top-decile relative strength, and ride the trend until the stock breaks its 50-day moving average.
Market context matters. 52-week-high scans run in a strong-breadth tape produce dozens of high-conviction names per day. The same scan during a corrective tape produces a handful, mostly defensive sectors and rotation winners. Reading breadth before sizing into individual names is the routine.
Pair with the unusual-volume scanner for confluence. Names breaking new highs on unusual volume are the strongest setups.
// Marcus Reilly, Editor.