CompanyGraph
A technical screen can describe where price and volume have been. It cannot turn a chart configuration into a forecast.
What is market structure in a stock screener?
Here, market structure means a recent pattern in weekly prices and trading volume: the width of a range, band compression, directional volume, and signed-volume sums. It does not mean the exchange's order-book design, and it does not reveal who traded or why.
How does the volatility-compression screen work?
The Volatility Compression State interpretation requires a narrow 26-week high-low range relative to average close, narrow Bollinger Bands, and an elevated Choppiness Index. All three weekly observations must fire.
A match describes a bounded outer range, narrow bands, and substantial back-and-forth movement that cancels inside the range. It does not require a quiet tape and does not predict whether price breaks up, breaks down, or remains compressed.
Narrow 26-Week Range, Narrow Bollinger Bands, And Elevated Choppiness Index
26-week high-low range is narrow relative to average price, Bollinger Band width is narrow relative to its own recent history, and the 14-week Choppiness Index is elevated
What does a positive price-volume configuration show?
The Up-Week Volume With Positive A/D Line interpretation requires a majority share of volume in up weeks over 30 weeks, a positive accumulation/distribution line, and net-positive volume-weighted returns. The three inputs overlap because each uses weekly price direction and volume.
A match records positive signed-volume and return co-occurrence. It does not identify “smart money,†informed buying, or an accumulation phase. The same pattern can reverse, persist, or occur during noisy trading.
Up-Week Volume With Positive A/D Line
Three signed-volume observations co-occur: up-week share of volume above 50%, positive accumulation-distribution line, and net-positive volume-weighted returns
Can these screens find breakouts or support levels?
No. Compression can identify a setup before some breakouts, but the interpretation contains no future-price condition. Neither panel calculates a support level, tests order concentration, or confirms that buyers will defend a price. A breakout must be defined and observed separately after the fact.
How should you combine weekly technical filters?
Use compression when the question is range and band structure. Use the price-volume panel when the question is recent signed-volume alignment. Combining them adds all required observations under AND logic. A zero result means no stock in the evaluated universe currently met the complete weekly configuration with available data.
Weekly observations update on the product's weekly schedule. Different lookback windows and corporate actions can affect eligibility. A screen result is not an executable price; trading outcomes also depend on liquidity, spreads, gaps, and order type.
What should you verify before acting on a setup?
Inspect the underlying price series for splits, gaps, stale prices, thin volume, and one-event distortions. Check upcoming earnings, financing, litigation, regulatory decisions, and other events that can dominate a historical pattern. Investor.gov's market overview explains the roles of markets and intermediaries; a chart does not expose the motives of participants.
What can technical structure not tell you?
The panels do not measure intrinsic value, business quality, balance-sheet capacity, informed ownership, short interest, options positioning, or future liquidity. Volume records completed trades, not conviction. Price records transactions, not a physical or financial cause.
Use CompanyGraph to find precise historical configurations, then define risk, horizon, confirmation, and invalidation independently. Do not translate a match into a guaranteed breakout or support claim.