Price trading above SMA 20, 50, and 200 with moving averages in perfect bullish alignment (20 > 50 > 200), confirming a strong established uptrend.
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SMA 20, SMA 50, and SMA 200 are simple moving averages of close prices over their respective lookback windows. on the Daily chart, SMA 200 spans roughly 16.5 hours of trading — about two full sessions. Full alignment (close > SMA 20 > SMA 50 > SMA 200) means price has not only cleared all three averages but they are themselves in ascending order, indicating the trend has been consistent across multiple timeframes simultaneously. Each average filters noise at a different frequency: SMA 20 is fast (recent sentiment), SMA 50 is medium (weeks of intraday trend), SMA 200 is slow (long-run direction). All three pointing up together is a stronger confirmation than any single average crossing alone.
Full MA alignment is a trend-confirmation filter, not an entry trigger — it tells you the trend backdrop, not when to buy. Entries are typically timed using shorter-term signals (pullbacks to SMA 20, MACD bull cross, EMA 9/20 cross up) while the full-alignment condition is used as a gating filter. The setup degrades when the SMA 50 or 200 are nearly flat, meaning alignment is marginal and could flip quickly. The strongest setups occur when all three averages are rising steeply and well-separated — a visual "fan" pattern. This screen also runs on 1-hour and daily timeframes; the daily version of full alignment is a core filter in many swing-trading systems. Related screens: Strong Intraday Uptrend for a momentum-focused variant, Below All MAs Bear for the opposite condition, EMA 9/20 Cross Up for an entry trigger within this trend environment.
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This screener finds stocks where the close is above SMA 20, SMA 20 is above SMA 50, and SMA 50 is above SMA 200 — the textbook definition of full moving-average bullish alignment. All three conditions must hold simultaneously on the same bar, so the screen captures stocks in the cleanest trend state possible. Momentum traders and trend-followers use it to locate stocks with no overhead moving-average resistance — every major average is below price and stacked in ascending order. Who uses this: intraday traders wanting a clean bullish trend backdrop before entering long positions. Failure mode: in strong bull markets almost everything qualifies, reducing selectivity; after a sharp opening surge, SMA alignment may reflect a brief intraday spike rather than a durable trend. Related screens include Strong Intraday Uptrend and the bearish mirror, Below All MAs Bear.
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