Screener breakout swing tie highs and lows in 1 min
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Hello, I’m new to ProRealTime and already see how powerful it is. I’d like help creating a breakout screener to find symbols that may be ready to break out. Maybe such an indicator already exists or something close that I can build on.
Goal: detect setups where price forms equal swing highs or lows (potential breakout zones).
This would be used for stocks.
Requirements:
- Scan on 1-minute timeframe
- Use only today’s session, starting from premarket
- Define a swing point (“peak”):
- High peak: highest high vs 3 bars left and right
- Low peak: lowest low vs 3 bars left and right
- Confirm after 3 bars to the right (detection delay)
- Equal high/low detection:
- Round prices to 2 decimals (e.g. 216.351 → 216.35)
- Group peaks by rounded price
- Plot horizontal lines where 2 or more equal peaks occur
- Detect only unbroken grouped peaks (price hasn’t crossed the line yet)
There could be 3 or even more equal swings, which I would want to screen for, but for now just start with 2My goal is to automatically identify symbols on the chart that have unbroken equal highs or lows, which could signal potential future breakouts if the setup is valid — without manually checking too many symbols on a such small timeframe.
This is how pattern look like visually what screener must find ( attached screenshots)
Hello, thanks for your reply.
I first tried the indicator, but most of the time it doesn’t show anything on the chart. I even select charts with equal highs or lows on purpose, but the indicator doesn’t detect them. It only shows levels occasionally, and when it does, they don’t look correct or make sense. ( i atached screnshot)
I also tried the screener. Sometimes it finds one or two stocks, but I’m scanning all NASDAQ stocks — so that can’t be right, since there should always be some stocks with equal highs or lows.
so something wrong with indicator and screener.
I’m also not a professional programmer, and when I code I usually do it with the help of Claude. That’s how I was able to create indicators in TradingView, but i have limitations with TV, so this is why i try to use PRT here. To see if I can create screener there.
I would send a little longe explanation about what is my requirements, maybe someone can help here:
Understood: your core goal is only the screener.
Here is a very short spec you can paste that focuses purely on the screener side.
Goal
Create a ProScreener that, on a 1‑minute timeframe, finds symbols which today have at least one unbroken equal swing high or equal swing low at exact 1‑cent precision.
Swing logic (inside screener)
- Work on 1‑minute intraday data.
- Only use bars where day == today (new calendar day = fresh start).
- Swing high at bar X:
- high[X] > high[X‑1], high[X‑2], high[X‑3]
- high[X] > high[X+1], high[X+2], high[X+3]
- Confirm the swing with a 3‑bar delay (central bar is X).
- Swing low at bar X:
- low[X] < low[X‑1], low[X‑2], low[X‑3]
- low[X] < low[X+1], low[X+2], low[X+3]
- Same 3‑bar confirmation.
Equal highs / equal lows (strict 1 cent)
- For each confirmed swing today, compute roundedPrice = round(swingPrice, 2).
- Equal high: at least 2 swing highs today with the same rounded high.
- Equal low: at least 2 swing lows today with the same rounded low.
- No tolerance: prices must be exactly equal after rounding to 2 decimals.
Unbroken condition (up to “now”)
- Level price = L.
- For an equal high level:
- After the last swing high that formed that level, no bar’s high is allowed to be > L (any wick above L breaks it).
- For an equal low level:
- After the last swing low that formed that level, no bar’s low is allowed to be < L (any wick below L breaks it).
- Broken levels must not count for the screener.
What the screener should return
For each symbol, the screener should:
- Scan today’s intraday data.
- Detect all 3‑left / 3‑right swings with 3‑bar delay.
- Identify equal‑price swing groups at 1‑cent precision.
- Check if at least one equal‑high or equal‑low level is still unbroken now.
- Output 1 (keep symbol) if there is at least one unbroken equal high or unbroken equal low today according to these rules; otherwise 0.
How dificult to create such screener in ProRealTime – or is it even possible?
This is below the first draft to find and plot the segments between equal rounded price only in the current day.
Now I have to detect the breakout above or below to unset those segments.
The below code version plot segments between 2 tops or 2 bottoms only if price hasn’t breakout yet.
Please confirm the tops and bottoms detection before going further.
defparam drawonlastbaronly=false if day<>day[1] or intradaybarindex=0 then unset($peak) unset($peakbar) unset($trough) unset($troughbar) i=0 j=0 endif Peak1 = (high[3] > high[4]) AND (high[3] > high[5]) AND (high[3] > high[6]) Peak2 = (high[3] > high[2]) AND (high[3] > high[1]) AND (high[3] > high[0]) Peak = Peak1 AND Peak2 if peak then // drawpoint(barindex[3],high[3],2) coloured("cyan") $peak[i]=high[3] $peakbar[i]=barindex[3] i=i+1 endif Trough1 = (low[3] < low[4]) AND (low[3] < low[5]) AND (low[5] < low[6]) Trough2 = (low[3] < low[2]) AND (low[3] < low[1]) AND (low[3] < low[0]) Trough = Trough1 AND Trough2 if Trough then //drawpoint(barindex[3],low[3],2) coloured("crimson") $trough[j]=low[3] $troughbar[j]=barindex[3] j=j+1 endif if islastbarupdate then if i>0 then for k = 0 to i-1 do drawpoint($peakbar[k], $peak[k],2) coloured("cyan") for l = 0 to i-1 do if $peakbar[l]<>$peakbar[k] then diff = abs(round($peak[l],2) - round($peak[k],2)) if diff = 0 then //equal price //find breakout period = max(1,max($peakbar[l],$peakbar[k]) - min($peakbar[l],$peakbar[k])) decay = max(1,barindex-max($peakbar[l],$peakbar[k])) hh = highest[period](high)[decay] //drawpoint(max($peakbar[l],$peakbar[k]),hh,5) coloured("green") if hh<=max($peak[l],$peak[k]) then //no breakout at that time drawsegment($peakbar[l],$peak[l], $peakbar[k], $peak[k]) coloured("cyan") endif endif endif next next endif if j>0 then for k = 0 to j-1 do drawpoint($troughbar[k], $trough[k],2) coloured("crimson") for l = 0 to i-1 do if $troughbar[l]<>$troughbar[k] then diff = abs(round($trough[l],2) - round($trough[k],2)) if diff = 0 then //equal price //find breakout period = max(1,max($troughbar[l],$troughbar[k]) - min($troughbar[l],$troughbar[k])) decay = max(1,barindex-max($troughbar[l],$troughbar[k])) ll = lowest[period](low)[decay] if ll>=min($trough[l],$trough[k]) then //no breakout at that time drawsegment($troughbar[l],$trough[l], $troughbar[k], $trough[k]) coloured("crimson") endif endif endif next next endif endif return //period, decay coloured("orange")Please note that the points and segments are plotted only for the current day. So if any tops or bottoms are not equal (rounded 2 digits) during the day, nothing is plotted. If you have any valid examples please post them.
robertogozzi thanked this postHi Roberto,
Thanks for confirming it’s possible!
Regarding your questions:
1- Swing definition: Your definition isn’t quite what I need. I want a 3-left/3-right pattern where:
- Swing high: The high at bar X must be greater than the highs of the 3 bars to its left AND the 3 bars to its right
- Swing low: The low at bar X must be lower than the lows of the 3 bars to its left AND the 3 bars to its right
There is no matter direction of candle, close green or red – doesn’t matter. only highs and lows matter.
2- No consecutive swings: the equal swing highs/lows do not need to be consecutive. They can occur anywhere during today’s session.
3- The level is the actual high/low of candles , not the close. So:
- For an equal high level at 216.35: after the last swing high that touched 216.35, no bar’s high should exceed 216.35
- For an equal low level at 215.10: after the last swing low that touched 215.10, no bar’s low should go below 215.10
I will try explain in simpler words, maybe it would be more helpful for me ( to clarify, and for you guys that are helping me)
1- so first is needed is to corectly identify swings( or pivot points) – there is indicator in Tradingview that is great for that it’s called “Pivots Points High Low” and is ideal for identification swings. In the setting I can chose how much left and right i want it to identify swings- i choose 3 and send screnshot how it looks
This indicator is excatly how i want swing to be identified
here is code:
here is code //@version=6 indicator("Pivot Points High Low", shorttitle="Pivots HL", overlay=true, max_labels_count=500) lengthGroupTitle = "LENGTH LEFT / RIGHT" colorGroupTitle = "Text Color / Label Color" leftLenH = input.int(title="Pivot High", defval=10, minval=1, inline="Pivot High", group=lengthGroupTitle) rightLenH = input.int(title="/", defval=10, minval=1, inline="Pivot High", group=lengthGroupTitle) textColorH = input(title="Pivot High", defval=color.black, inline="Pivot High", group=colorGroupTitle) labelColorH = input(title="", defval=color.white, inline="Pivot High", group=colorGroupTitle) leftLenL = input.int(title="Pivot Low", defval=10, minval=1, inline="Pivot Low", group=lengthGroupTitle) rightLenL = input.int(title="/", defval=10, minval=1, inline="Pivot Low", group=lengthGroupTitle) textColorL = input(title="Pivot Low", defval=color.black, inline="Pivot Low", group=colorGroupTitle) labelColorL = input(title="", defval=color.white, inline="Pivot Low", group=colorGroupTitle) ph = ta.pivothigh(leftLenH, rightLenH) pl = ta.pivotlow(leftLenL, rightLenL) drawLabel(_offset, _pivot, _style, _color, _textColor) => if not na(_pivot) label.new(bar_index[_offset], _pivot, str.tostring(_pivot, format.mintick), style=_style, color=_color, textcolor=_textColor) drawLabel(rightLenH, ph, label.style_label_down, labelColorH, textColorH) drawLabel(rightLenL, pl, label.style_label_up, labelColorL, textColorL)2- then i want to know ( screener/indicator to identify) is there on chart a pivot points at the same price (2 swings at the same price)
here on chart of AAPLE there is 2 examples of this
(attached screnshot with orange circles)
3- Next filter is I want to see only equal swings that price is not broke, or not crossed yet.
As you can see equal highs at price 279.05 that was identified previously, price already crossed.
but there is on today chart is equal swing lows at 278.50 that are unbroken/uncrossed.
And that is main goal, i want screener to screen for stocks that :
- today formed equal swings that are unbroken yet, and pop up me stock as fast as this 3bars right high/low confirmed.
Hope this makes more sense.
Thank you guys for helping, didn’t saw this much help in other community before.
This pivot code reflects exactly how are detected pivots in the code of my previous post. It is just basic Williams Fractals. Did you try it? The same exact levels as your examples were detected. I bet we are near of what you expect?
So if i’m not wrong, we want to give alerts if screener detect an unbroken 2 points high or low (examples attached with dotted line in cyan), Apple and Bank Of America. Right?
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for your reply.
The “points and segments only for the current day” part is perfect – that’s exactly what I wanted and where i had problems previously
I’ve attached more screenshots, especially for AAPL. I’m a bit confused by the red/blue dots that mark swings: in some places where the 3‑left / 3‑right rule should give a swing, there is no dot. I tried to explain this directly on the chart.
So I’m not sure whether: the indicator is missing some valid swings, or it just does’nt draw them ?
My questions:
- If the indicator doesn’t draw a dot at a swing, does that mean it has not been recognised as a swing ?
And there is also a correctly identified lines, but i see that some of them alreay broken.
- I see the indicator connecting dots with lines, but in the screener I don’t want equal swings that have already been broken/crossed
So again
- correctly idendifying all swings
- draw or connect swings that have equal price and are still unbroken = show unbroken equal swing on screener
Yes- your last answer is exactly correct
“only the thresholds that haven’t been crossed since their detection are shown as a dotted line up to the current bar.” this is working super well, perfect idea !
I checked some charts and see why it dont identify all swings.
There may be on chart 2-3 consecutive candles with the same high/low- and they are no detecred as swing.
nothing will explain it better than some screenshots. So I have atached what I mean
After that, yes it’s perfectly work as needed. no way to do it better, and no need
I see with new code, that when these surrounding candles are equal, the indicator thinks they are 2 separate swings and draws a line purely from this 2candles high, which is not entirely correct.
This actually remains one swing, just formed by several consecutive candles.
Everything else works perfectly.
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| Forum: | ProScreener: Market Scanners & Detection |
| Language: | English |
| Started: | 10/15/2025 |
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