EP9 SOS Scanner

EP9 SOS applies the EP9 Million framework of Pradeep Bonde. The raw scan is one line: at least 8,900,000 shares traded on the day and a price of at least three dollars. The volume floor is the rough footprint of institutional flow, and below it price moves are driven by participants too small to be predictable. On a normal session that alone returns two to three hundred names across the market.

The raw list is only the starting point. What turns it into something tradeable is the trigger, and it is the part most attempts at this method skip. The scan asks whether a stock is moving; the trigger asks whether it is at the start of a move. Entering on day one is structurally different from entering on day three, even when the catalyst is identical.

Four conditions must be true on the same bar. Yesterday must not already have been rising, which is the emergence from compression: the classic structure is quiet, then expansion. Today's body must be larger than yesterday's, which is the range expansion itself. The close must land in the top 30% of the day's range — the Daily Closing Range, (close minus low) divided by (high minus low), at 70% or above. And the volume must clear the floor. A wide bar that closes mid-range is ambiguous; a bar that closes near its high held conviction into the bell.

The SOS column is that closing range as a number, from 0 at the low to 1 at the high, and the table is sorted with the strongest closes first. Risk is the distance from the current price down to the stop, which sits at the low of the day. ADR is the average daily range over fourteen sessions. A name only appears if the risk is contained inside its own average range: a stop further away than the stock typically travels in a day is not a stop, it is a hope.

The scan runs from the open to the close and rebuilds through the session. A name that qualifies at ten in the morning may not qualify at noon, and the two hundred and fifty that clear the volume floor arrive gradually — a few dozen in the first half hour, most of them by midday. What survives all four conditions is usually between three and ten names.

This scanner does not constitute financial advice. All information is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Past behavior of any pattern does not guarantee future results. Always conduct your own analysis before making any trading decision.