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Darvas Box breakout

A 52-week high set four days ago, three quiet days under it forming the box top, and today breaking through on heavy volume. Buy the break, stop at the box bottom.

H4 >= MAXH252.4 AND MAXH3.1 < H4 AND H > MAXH3.1 AND V >= 1.5 * AVGV20
Run it on tonight's close across the S&P 500 + Nasdaq 100, or make it part of your evening routine.
Run scan

Matches at the last close · 24 Aug 2026

No results computed yet. Counts land after tonight's close.

Provenance

Nicolas Darvas describes this setup without exact numbers; this is our stated formalization of it.

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