A serious Market Profile trader checks 8 things on a stock before taking an intraday trade. On 200+ NSE F&O stocks, that is 1,600 checks before 10:15 AM — impossible by hand. The Live Intraday Scanner does all of it for you, every 2 minutes, and hands you the 3 names that actually matter. Here is exactly how to use it.
If you learn nothing else on this page, learn these three moves. They work every single trading day.
The Market Bias panel at the top counts bullish vs bearish stocks across the whole F&O list. Bias strongly bullish? Hunt longs. Bearish? Hunt shorts. Flat? Expect a range day and trade the edges. You just took the single most important decision of the day — in 5 seconds.
Scroll to the filter row at the bottom of the table. Pick a value in one column, then another, then another. Every filter you add narrows the list further. 200 stocks become 40, then 9, then 3. Those 3 are your day.
The Market Profile chart opens instantly with all reference levels. The scanner is your alert; the profile is your decision. Never skip this step. In a hurry? Hit the AI button on the row and get a plain-English read.
The mindset shift. Most traders use a scanner to ask "which stock is moving?" — that is what every free screener on the internet already tells you, and by then the move is gone.
This scanner answers a completely different question: "who is in control of this stock, and are they still in control right now?" That is what Market Profile was built for, and it is why you will often be positioned before the candle everyone else is chasing.
Top half = market context. Bottom half = your hunting ground. Learn the top half once and it does half your thinking every morning.
Live count of bullish vs bearish stocks, plus the net score. This is market internals without opening a single index chart. A net of +60 tells you far more than the Nifty candle does.
Click any tile — Gap Up, Open Drive ↑, Buy Tail, Single Print ↑, Poor High and their bearish twins — and the table instantly filters to those stocks. Click again to clear. Note: tiles apply one filter at a time. For combinations, use the dropdown row.
Three read-only bars: Opening Type, TPO Position vs yesterday, and IB% buckets. Hover any segment for exact counts. If 120 stocks opened above yesterday's value area, do not spend your morning looking for shorts.
Machine-learning breakout signals above 70% model confidence, trained on years of NSE Market Profile data. Click a card to jump straight to that chart. Treat it as a second opinion, never as an order.
The ← → arrows walk back through previous trading days — the same scanner, replayed. The Snapshot label tells you exactly how fresh the data is. Always glance at it before acting on a signal.
On by default, refreshing every 2 minutes through market hours, with a Refresh button for when you cannot wait. Leave it on. A Market Profile signal that appeared 40 minutes ago is history, not an opportunity.
The Glossary button on the scanner explains what each value means. This table tells you what to do with it — and how each column is filtered.
| Column | The question it answers | How you trade it |
|---|---|---|
| Name type | Which stock? | Click it to open the Market Profile chart. Type any part of a symbol in the box to jump straight to it — handy when you already hold a position and just want its live profile read. |
| Sector sort / search | Is this one stock, or the whole sector? | The strongest intraday moves are sector-wide. Sort by Sector, or type a sector into the global Search box, and if 6 banking names show the same bullish signal you are looking at institutional rotation, not noise. |
| Opening dropdown | Who grabbed control at 9:15? | Your first filter of the day. Gap Up / Above VAH = buyers walked in with confidence. Gap Down / Below VAL = sellers did. In Value = nobody did, so expect chop until someone commits. |
| IB % sort | How much of the day's range is already used up? | Click the header to sort. Sort ascending and the narrowest first hours float to the top — these are coiled springs, the classic trend-day candidates. Sort descending and you get stocks that have already spent their range: fade the edges, do not chase breakouts. The IB% Distribution bar at the top shows how many stocks sit in the Trend (<30%) bucket right now. |
| OpenDrive dropdown | Did the opening side actually follow through? | The conviction column. Open Drive ↑/↓ = no pullback, strongest signal on the screen. Test Drive = a quick test first, then commitment — often a better entry. Rejection = the opening side failed, which is your reversal hunting ground. |
| Tail dropdown | Did big money step in at an extreme? | A Buy Tail is aggressive buying at the low; a Sell Tail is aggressive selling at the high. Tails give you something rare: a defined risk level. Your stop goes just beyond the tail, so the trade is small-risk by design. |
| SinglePrint dropdown | Where did price move so fast it left a hole? | Single prints are unfinished business — future support and resistance. The letter in brackets, e.g. [K], tells you which 30-minute period created it, so you know whether it formed at the open or minutes ago. Fresh prints near the current price are the most tradeable levels on the chart. |
| Poor H/L dropdown | Was the high/low left unfinished? | A Poor High means the market stopped without a clean rejection — the auction did not finish its job. Such levels act like magnets and often get taken out later in the session. Poor Low is the mirror image. Underrated column, brilliant for afternoon setups. |
| Day Type dropdown | What kind of day is this? | This one column decides your entire strategy. Trend ↑/↓ = go with it and hold, never fade. Normal = range day, fade the extremes. Neutral = both sides fought; the close tells you who won. A ~ prefix means it is an early estimate before 10:15 AM — useful, but not final. |
| TPO Pos dropdown | Where is price right now vs today's value? Is a single print forming this minute? | Your live confirmation column. Above VA = buyers still in control this minute.
Below VA = sellers are. In VA = balance, stand aside. A great-looking bullish signal with price
Below VA has already failed — this column saves you from those trades.
It also does something no other column does: when it reads 3 TPO ↑ High, 4 TPO ↑ High, 5 TPO ↓ Low and so on, it is counting single TPOs piling up beyond the day's extreme — a single print being born, live. See the highlighted section below. |
| TPO Pos (Prev) dropdown | Has the market accepted a new price level? | The professional's column. Holding Above VA or Above PDH of yesterday means real acceptance of higher prices, not a spike. These are the moves that trend all afternoon instead of reversing at 11 AM. |
| Price / Change% type | How far has it already run? | Sort Change% to rank your filtered list by momentum. Reality check: a stock already up 4% offers a worse entry than the same setup at +0.6%. Great setup, terrible price, is still a bad trade. |
| AI button | What does all of this add up to? | One click on the icon asks SarthoAI to read that stock's full profile and explain the setup in plain language. Perfect while you are still learning the vocabulary. |
This one deserves its own section. Every platform can show you a single print after it has formed. This scanner shows it to you while it is being created — and that is a completely different trade.
The SinglePrint column shows prints that are already complete — holes left behind inside the profile. Excellent as future support and resistance, but the move that created them is over.
The TPO Pos column shows something else entirely. When it reads 4 TPO ↑ High it is telling you: 4 single TPOs are currently stacked beyond the day's high, right now, and nothing has come back to fill them. Hover the cell and you will see the full text: "4 Single TPO above Days High". The mirror version, 4 TPO ↓ Low, is a downside print forming below the day's low.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| 1 – 2 TPO | Ordinary range extension. Price nudged past the extreme. Not a print yet — ignore it. |
| 3 TPO or more | A single print is genuinely in formation. Price has run through three or more price levels without one single pull-back to fill them. One side has simply vacated. This is the threshold BreakingTrade's own signal engine uses internally before it will call a single print. |
| Count rising on each refresh | The print is extending — nobody is defending. This is the strongest live momentum reading available anywhere on the screen. |
| Count frozen, price coming back | The print is being filled. The move is done. That zone now flips into resistance (upside print) or support (downside print) — trade it from the other side instead. |
Because the count is part of the value, the TPO Pos dropdown lists each count as its own option (3 TPO ↑ High, 4 TPO ↑ High…). To catch every forming print in one shot, use the global Search box above the table instead and type:
Single TPO above Days High ← upside prints forming
Single TPO below Days Low ← downside prints forming
Every stock currently printing singles at an extreme appears instantly, whatever the count. Then just read the number in each TPO Pos cell and keep the ones showing 3 or more. Short on typing? Days High works too. Leave the search on and hit Refresh every couple of minutes — you are now watching single prints appear across 200+ F&O stocks in real time.
A single print is the market's clearest confession that one side has given up. By the time it is a visible hole on everyone's profile chart, the easy money in that move has been paid out to whoever was already positioned. This column puts you in the second group. A stock showing 4 TPOs above the day's high on a Trend ↑ day is not a stock that moved — it is a stock that is moving, and you found it from a list of 200 without opening a single chart.
Trade it with respect. This is the fastest signal on the screen and therefore the easiest one to get hurt chasing. Open the chart and confirm the zone is genuinely empty, keep your size honest, and place your stop back inside the profile — not at the print, which is exactly where price will wick to. If the count has already reached 6 or 7, you are late; wait for the pull-back to the print instead.
One filter gives you a list. Stacked filters give you a setup. This is the part almost nobody uses fully, and it is the reason this screen replaces a dozen tools.
Scroll to the bottom row of the table. Eight columns have dropdowns — Opening, OpenDrive, Tail, SinglePrint, Poor H/L, Day Type, TPO Pos and TPO Pos (Prev). Name, IB %, Price and Change% take typed text. There is also a global Search box above the table.
Every dropdown you set is an AND condition. Opening and OpenDrive and Day Type and TPO Pos, all at once. Eight columns with several values each means hundreds of distinct scans from one screen — and every one of them is a scan you defined, not a preset someone sold you.
Each option shows a live count, like Gap Up (14). So before you even filter, the dropdown has told you how crowded that condition is today. Only 2 stocks in Open Drive ↑ on a strong day? Those 2 are the leaders.
1. Picking Trend ↑ also keeps the early ~Trend ↑ estimates — useful before 10:15.
2. Prefer the most specific option: Normal also matches Normal Var ↑/↓.
3. Stuck at "no data"? You have a stale filter. Hit Clear All Filters and start clean.
Build any scan yourself with three questions. You do not need to memorise setups. Every good Market Profile trade is just these three answers lining up:
1. Who took control at the open? → Opening
2. Did they follow through? → OpenDrive, Tail, SinglePrint, IB %
3. Are they still in control right now? → TPO Pos, TPO Pos (Prev), Day Type
Answer all three in the same direction and you have a trade. Answer them in different directions and you have just saved yourself a loss. That is the whole scanner in one idea.
This is the habit that separates people who own a scanner from people who use one. You do not have to wait for a signal to be handed to you. Picture the trade you want — in plain words, in your head — then translate it into filters and let the scanner tell you whether any of 200+ stocks is doing exactly that, right now. Four examples:
Three dropdowns. Fifteen seconds. You have just screened a complete failed-breakdown reversal thesis across the entire F&O universe.
Then keep only the rows showing 3 TPO ↑ High or more. You are watching single prints being born on a trend day — the earliest entry Market Profile offers.
A patient, low-noise afternoon idea that no preset screener anywhere will ever offer you — because you invented it thirty seconds ago.
Quiet open, buyers stepped in, price now accepted above value. The kind of move that never shows up on a top-gainers list until it is far too late.
And if the scanner returns nothing? That is not a failure — that is the most valuable answer it gives you all day.
It means the setup you had in mind is not present in the market today. Most intraday losses come from forcing a favourite setup onto a day that was never offering it. Instead of finding that out at 2 PM through your P&L, you found it out in five seconds, for free, before risking a rupee. Clear the filters, ask a different question, or simply sit out.
Set the dropdowns exactly as shown. Each card also tells you when to run it and what to check on the chart before you commit. Start with two or three that suit your style rather than trying all thirteen.
Buyers gapped it up, never let it pull back, and price is still above today's value.
The cleanest trend-day long on the screen. A narrow IB on top of this is the classic setup for a stock that trends one way till 3:15. On such a name, trail your stop — do not book at +0.5%.
The market built a brand-new value area higher and stayed there.
Not a spike — genuine acceptance of higher prices. These are the calmest holds of the day and the setups positional traders quietly love. Yesterday's value area high becomes your stop reference.
Trading above yesterday's high, with aggressive buying defending the low of the day.
Above PDH is where trapped shorts live. Add a buying tail and you have both fuel and a defined risk point. Check the chart for how firmly yesterday's high has been left behind.
The mirror image of The Runaway — sellers took control and never gave it back.
Down-trend days move faster than up-trend days on NSE. Respect that in both your target and your stop, and never average into it.
Opened strong, got rejected, and has now lost today's value area entirely.
Every retail long who bought the gap is now underwater. This combination is exactly how a scanner spots a trap that looks bullish on a candle chart. Confirm a clear failure at the highs on the profile.
Big money sold the highs and the day is quietly extending lower.
A defined-risk short: stop just above the sell tail, target the value area low. The best risk-reward on the screen on ordinary, boring days — which is most days.
Panic open, sellers failed, buyers took the low aggressively.
Reversals off a fearful open can be violent because shorts have to cover. This is a higher-risk, higher-reward scan — keep size modest and let the buy tail define your stop. Especially worth watching on a high-VIX day.
The high was left unfinished and price is sitting back in balance.
Unfinished auctions tend to get revisited. This is the afternoon setup nobody screens for — because almost no platform gives you a Poor H/L column at all. Target: the poor high itself.
Price shot up leaving a hole, and has drifted back toward it.
Single prints are the most reliable intraday support and resistance you will find, because they mark a level where one side simply gave up. Note the letter in brackets to see how recently it formed, then trade the reaction at the print — long if it holds, short if it fails.
Singles are stacking up beyond the day's high right now and nobody is filling them.
The earliest signal on the whole screen — you are watching the print form instead of reading it afterwards. Swap to Single TPO below Days Low with Trend ↓ for shorts. If the count is already 6 or 7 you are late: wait for the pull-back into the print.
A wide first hour already used up the day's range, and price is now stretched to the top edge.
On a Normal day the odds favour rotation back toward the middle, not a breakout. This scan is how you stop buying breakouts that were never going to break out. Flip TPO Pos to Below VA for the long version.
Both sides fought all day and the buyers are winning into the close.
A neutral day that resolves late often carries into the next session's open. Use this scan after 2 PM to find closing-hour momentum — and to build a genuine watchlist for tomorrow morning. Swap to Neutral Ext ↓ / Below VA for shorts.
One whole sector showing the same Market Profile signal.
When 6 names in a sector print the same structure, that is a fund rotating money, not a random tick. Trade the strongest name for momentum or the laggard for catch-up. Either way you are trading with the flow, not guessing at it.
The same scanner tells you different things at different times. Use the right column at the right hour (all times IST).
Read Market Bias and the Opening Type distribution bar. Nothing else. Decide whether today is a long day, a short day, or a sit-on-hands day. Day Type is still showing ~ estimates — do not lean on it yet.
OpenDrive and Tail are at their most valuable. Run The Runaway, The Breakdown, The Gap-Up Trap and Gap-Down Rescue. First single prints start appearing.
The first hour is complete. IB % becomes final and Day Type drops its ~ and turns real. Refresh, re-read Day Type, and pick your approach: trend-follow or fade. Every good Market Profile session pivots here.
Watch TPO Pos flips and TPO Pos (Prev) acceptance. Run Value Migration, Breakaway Above PDH and Range-Day Edge Fade. This is where the day's biggest clean moves happen. On a strong day, park the search on Single TPO above Days High and just keep refreshing — forming prints appear here more than in any other window.
Volumes thin out and breakouts fail more often. Switch to structure: Poor High Magnet and Single Print Refill. This is the window where most traders give back their morning profits by forcing trades. Don't.
Day Type is now nearly settled. Run Neutral Day Resolution for closing momentum, square off intraday positions, and export the filtered table to Excel — today's structure is tomorrow's watchlist.
This page is the operating manual. These go wider and deeper.
The Live Intraday Scanner: how to find high-probability trades across 200+ stocks in seconds — the background story. What the scanner replaces, what the Market Bias dashboard is really measuring, and why watching 15 stocks means missing 185.
Market Profile Glossary and What is Market Profile — TPO, Value Area, POC, Initial Balance and single prints explained from scratch, with worked examples on Nifty.
The Live Volume Scanner guide — a signal on this screen is interesting; the same signal with 2x session volume behind it is conviction. Session-wise Volume Factor is how you tell the two apart, and that guide is the operating manual for it. Background reading: why volume beats price.
MP Charts guide — the scanner tells you which stock; the chart tells you where. Value area, POC, tails, single prints, TPO size, Volume Profile and composites, plus why F&O stocks are charted on NSE cash data.
Live Intraday Scanner overview — what it detects, how often it refreshes, and how to get alerts on Telegram when your watchlist stocks trigger.
Without logging in you are looking at the previous session's snapshot — enough to learn the columns and practise the combos. The live screen, refreshing every 2 minutes with ML signals, Market Bias, alerts and one-click Market Profile charts, is what you use to actually trade the day.
Market Profile concepts by J. Peter Steidlmayer & James Dalton. The scanner is an analysis and education tool: it identifies market structure, it does not predict outcomes or give investment advice. Every setup on this page can and will fail sometimes — position size and stop-losses are your responsibility. Please trade only with capital you can afford to risk.