GlossaryBy Sverre MoeUpdated 2026-07-21
What is a Pocket Pivot?
What is a Pocket Pivot?
A pocket pivot is a volume-confirmed accumulation signal developed by Gil Morales and Chris Kacher, two analysts who worked with William O'Neil: a day where a stock closes up on volume that exceeds every single down-day's volume from the prior 10 sessions. The idea is that if buyers can move more volume in one up day than sellers managed on their worst day recently, real institutional demand has shown up before the stock has necessarily broken out of its base.
It is meant to be read earlier than a standard breakout. The stock does not need to clear a prior high or a defined base yet, just to show that one up day's volume has quietly outmuscled the heaviest recent selling. That is the "pocket" in the name: a smaller, earlier window of opportunity inside a base, before the wider market notices.
How tickerstance scans for pocket pivots
The scanner requires today's close above yesterday's close, and today's raw share volume above the single largest down-day's volume from the prior 10 sessions, the literal Morales/Kacher definition, not an approximation. Qualifying names are then ranked by RVOL (today's dollar volume against the trailing 30-session average) as a secondary sort, so the board surfaces the most extreme pocket pivots first.
As of the July 20, 2026 close, CLBK topped the /volume heavy-buying board: it closed up 4.61% at $24.50 on 16.8 million shares, against a heaviest prior-10-day down-day of just 379,000 shares, roughly 44 times more volume on the up day than the worst down day in the prior two weeks.
Related
- RVOL
The relative-volume rank used as the secondary sort on the pocket-pivot board.
- Accumulation
The broader up-volume-dominant regime pocket pivots belong to.
- Volume page
Today's heavy-buying board.