NSE Market Breadth — Advances, Declines & Participation
Live NSE market breadth: advance/decline ratio, sector participation and breadth thrust signals. Free daily breadth dashboard — educational only.
Live NSE market breadth: stocks closing higher versus lower, advance-decline ratio, sector-level participation, and new highs versus new lows. A/D above 2 signals broad upside participation; below 0.5 signals broad selling; divergence between index and breadth often precedes corrections.
Recently viewed
Insights
Live NSE market intelligence.
How Traders Pair Insights With Scanners
Breadth as background context
Breadth summarizes how widely moves are shared. Widely-supported uptrends are often scrutinized differently from narrow, index-led tape—use the gauges here as background when you vet scanner rows yourself.
Prioritise leading sectors
Leadership rotates: some sectors outperform for quarters, others stall. Identify the cohorts labelled strongest on our heatmaps, then open Pre-Breakout Stocks or Breakout Stocks to see whether individual names match the same story the sector chart suggests.
Combine top-down and bottom-up analysis
A strong stock chart inside a weak sector can raise different questions than the same chart inside a leading sector. Swing Edge shows both layers so you can reason about alignment without us pushing a particular position size or trade count.
Narrow breadth vs strong sectors
If breadth weakens while indices hover high, some investors treat that as a structural warning worth studying further. The Bearish Setups page lists downside-model output for additional context—still your decision what to do with positions.
Frequently Asked Questions — NSE Market Breadth — Advances, Declines & Participation
What is the advance/decline ratio?
A/D ratio = number of NSE stocks closing higher today divided by number closing lower. A/D > 2 is broad participation up; A/D < 0.5 is broad selling. Closer to 1 means mixed tape.
Why does breadth matter for swing trading?
Setups behave differently in broad vs narrow tapes. Breakouts in broad uptrends (A/D consistently > 2) follow through at higher rates than the same breakouts in narrow tapes. Breadth is your context for sizing and aggression.
What is a breadth thrust?
A breadth thrust is a sharp transition from weak to broad participation — typically A/D ratio surging above 2 (or even higher thresholds like Zweig's 0.615 ten-day breadth ratio). Historically, breadth thrusts have preceded sustained rallies more often than not, though sample sizes vary.
What is bearish breadth divergence?
Bearish breadth divergence is when the headline index makes new highs while breadth metrics (A/D line, new highs vs new lows) deteriorate. It signals that fewer stocks are participating in the rally — often a precursor to corrections.