Why traders watch 52-week highs
A stock at a 52-week high has no one above it sitting on a loss and waiting to sell, which is one reason strong stocks often keep making new highs. Momentum and breakout traders start their search here. A stock at a 52-week low is the opposite: every holder from the last year is under water.
- New 52-week high today: today’s high is above every high of the previous 251 trading days.
- Within 3%: the close is within 3% of the 52-week high (or low).
- 30%+ below high and doubled off low help find beaten-down names and big recoveries.
Frequently asked questions
Are prices adjusted for splits?
Yes. Candles are split-adjusted, so a stock split doesn’t create a fake 52-week high or low. Dividends aren’t adjusted.
Which markets can it scan?
Four, picked with the Market buttons above the table. Crypto (the default) scans the 250 busiest USDT pairs on Binance. Crypto perps scans the 200 busiest USDT perpetual futures on OKX. Both are free public data and need no key. US stocks scans about 600 US stocks and ETFs with your own free Alpaca key, and CME futures scans about 25 front-month CME Group contracts (stock indexes, Treasuries, oil, gas, metals, grains, livestock, currencies and CME bitcoin) with your own free Massive key.
Why do stocks and futures need a key?
Stock and futures prices are licensed data, so a website can’t hand them out for free. Alpaca (for stocks) and Massive (for futures) give anyone a free data key. Your key is saved only in your browser and sent only to that provider. See how to get a free Alpaca key and how to get a free Massive key for futures.
Which stocks does it scan with an Alpaca key?
About 600 US stocks and ETFs: roughly the S&P 500, popular growth and momentum names, and around 75 of the most traded ETFs. The largest 135 load first; the rest follow automatically a few seconds later.
Is the data real-time?
Crypto and crypto perps are live from Binance and OKX, on daily candles that start at 00:00 UTC (today’s candle is still forming). Alpaca’s free stock data is 15 minutes behind the market, and Massive’s free futures plan is 8 hours delayed. Turn on auto-refresh next to the results to update the table in place every 30 seconds, minute or 5 minutes.