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dtis Stockbee's Double Trouble screen. One command returns the 50 stocks that have run furthest off their 52-week low, the names up roughly 80 percent or more from the bottom.- The DT number is close divided by the lowest low over the trailing 252 sessions, about one year. A DT of 1.8 means price is 1.8 times the 52-week low, which is where the screen fires.
- The list is sorted by DT in descending order, so the top row is the most extended name in the whole universe, not the one that just cleared the 1.8 floor.
- The single most extended name on the 2026-07-08 close, ILLR at 200.8 times its low, carries an RS of only 63 in Stage 1 basing: a low-priced base rocket, not a leader.
- The tradeable names are the extended ones that also carry a high RS and a Stage 2 uptrend. On this close SNDK, WOLF, RXT, AGL and STAK all pair big DT numbers with RS 96 to 99 in Stage 2.
- Read the DT number with the RS and STG columns, or filter
dt rs>90. A very extended name with a low RS is mean-reversion risk, not momentum, and it is an end-of-day observation, not advice.
The 80%-off-the-low question
To find the stocks that have already run 80 percent or more off their lows, type dt in the tickerstance terminal. It returns the 50 names extended furthest above their 52-week low, sorted by how far. On the 2026-07-08 close the list ran from ILLR at 200.8 times its low all the way down to names sitting just past the screen's floor. The screen is worth running every night. The mistake is reading it top-down as a ranking of the best stocks, because that is not what it is.
dt is Stockbee's Double Trouble screen, a momentum filter Pradeep Bonde built to surface stocks in powerful multi-month advances. The name doubles as a warning. A stock that has doubled and then some off its low is either riding a genuine institutional uptrend or it is a low-priced thing that got squeezed off a broken bottom. The screen catches both kinds. Telling them apart is the whole skill, and the terminal gives you the columns to do it.
What "up 80% off the low" actually measures
The DT number is a plain ratio you could compute by hand. Take today's close and divide it by the lowest low the stock printed over the trailing 252 trading sessions, roughly one calendar year. A stock sitting exactly on its 52-week low has a DT of 1.0. A stock trading at twice its low has a DT of 2.0. The screen fires the moment that ratio reaches 1.8, meaning price is 1.8 times the 52-week low, or up about 80 percent from the bottom.
1.8 is a floor, not a target. Every name on the screen has already cleared it, and the rows are sorted by the ratio in descending order. So the top row is the most extended stock in the entire universe, not the one that just qualified. That ordering is the first thing to understand, because it is the root of the trap two sections down: the name at the top has travelled the furthest off its low, and distance travelled off a low is a different thing from strength.
DT is close divided by the 52-week low. The screen fires at 1.8x, which is price up about 80% off the low; the list then sorts by how far past that a name has run.
The 50 most extended names
Type dt and the terminal lays out the 50 most extended names with the columns you need to judge them. DT is the ratio itself. RS is the 0-to-99 relative-strength rank against the market. CHG is today's percentage change. RVOL is today's volume against the stock's own average. ADR is average daily range, a volatility read. OFF HI is how far the name sits below its 52-week high. $VOL is dollar volume, the liquidity read. STG is the Weinstein stage (1 basing, 2 advancing, 3 topping, 4 declining). PWR is Power, an absolute strength score anchored to a fixed scale.
On the session below, ILLR sits at the top at 200.8 times its low, but its RS is only 63 and its stage reads 1, basing. Just underneath, SNDK at 43.1 times carries RS 98 and a Stage 2 uptrend, WOLF at 30.9 times carries RS 96, RXT at 16.7 times carries RS 99 in Stage 2, and AGL and STAK both sit near 14 times at RS 99, and OTLK (RS 99, up 15.8% today) is the same kind of name. One screen, two completely different species of stock.
dt on the 2026-07-08 close, sorted by how far each name has run past the 1.8x floor. ILLR tops the list at 200.8x on a penny base at RS 63 in Stage 1, while the strong names below it (SNDK, WOLF, RXT, AGL, STAK) pair extension with RS 96 to 99 and a Stage 2 uptrend.The trap at the top of the list
The most extended name on the screen is almost never the best one. ILLR is the clean example from this session. A DT of 200.8 means the stock is trading at two hundred times its 52-week low, and that only happens to a name that was priced near zero a year ago. It is a low-priced stock that got squeezed off a broken bottom, and its RS of 63 and its Stage 1 basing structure confirm it. The enormous DT number is measuring the depth of the hole the stock climbed out of, not the quality of the climb.
Extension measures distance off the low. It says nothing about whether the trend above that low is real. STFS on the same board shows the other failure mode: 19.0 times its low but reading Stage 3, topping. A stock can be extremely extended and already rolling over. The DT number alone cannot see that. The stage and the RS can.
Reading the DT number with RS and stage
The fix is to read the DT number next to two other columns, or to filter on one of them. Add dt rs>90 and the screen keeps only the extended names that also rank in the top decile of relative strength. That drops the penny-base rockets and leaves the ones institutions are actually accumulating. On this close it leaves SNDK, WOLF, RXT, AGL, STAK and the rest of the RS 96-to-99 cohort, every one of them in a Stage 2 uptrend.
If you would rather read than filter, the STG column does the same work by eye. A high DT paired with Stage 2 is a stock extended inside a live uptrend. A high DT paired with Stage 1 or Stage 4 is extension with no trend under it, which is mean-reversion risk rather than momentum. The pattern worth watching is a big DT sitting on a high RS in Stage 2, all reading in the same direction. The pattern to distrust is a very high DT sitting on a low RS, the way ILLR does.
Extension is not a verdict
Everything on the dt screen is end-of-day. The DT ratio, the RS rank, the stage and every other column are computed from the official close and stamped with that date. The screen you run after Friday's close describes where prices closed Friday, not where they will open Monday, and there are no intraday quotes anywhere in it.
A single reading is a snapshot, not a trend. A name can jump onto the extended end of the list on one strong week and slide back off it the next. What separates a durable move from a one-week spike is persistence in the RS and the stage across weeks, not a large DT on a single day.
And the screen reports a condition, it does not hand you a trade. dt tells you which stocks have run 80 percent or more off their lows and how much strength sits underneath each one. Whether a very extended Stage 2 leader is an entry, a name to leave alone, or a stock to wait for a pullback on depends on your strategy, your timeframe and your risk. The terminal reports where the extension is; the trade is yours.
Where the DT screen lives
The Double Trouble screen and every filter on it are part of the tickerstance terminal, where a typed command puts a question to the tape. The interactive terminal is a Pro feature, and everything it computes is end-of-day and point-in-time honest, with no "here is what to buy" attached. It reports where the strength is; the trade is yours.
Open the terminal and type dt for tonight's list of the most extended names, then dt rs>90 to keep only the ones carrying leadership strength underneath the move. Extension is where the eye goes first. The RS and the stage are what tell you whether the run is real.
Frequently asked questions
What does it mean when a stock is up 80% off its lows?
It means the current price is about 1.8 times the lowest price the stock traded over the past year, so it has climbed roughly 80 percent from that bottom. In the tickerstance terminal that is exactly what the DT number measures: today's close divided by the lowest low over the trailing 252 sessions. A DT of 1.8 is a move of about 80 percent off the low, and the dt screen fires at that level.
How do I screen for stocks that have run far off their lows?
Type dt in the tickerstance terminal. It runs Stockbee's Double Trouble screen, which lists the 50 stocks extended furthest above their 52-week low, sorted by how far. The DT column shows the exact ratio of close to 52-week low, so you can see which names have run the most and which have only just cleared the 1.8 threshold.
What is the Double Trouble screen?
Double Trouble is a momentum screen from Pradeep Bonde (Stockbee) that surfaces stocks in strong multi-month advances by measuring how far price has run off its 52-week low. The trigger is a stock trading at 1.8 times its lowest low over the past year, up about 80 percent from the bottom. In the terminal it is the dt command, and the list is sorted by the DT ratio in descending order.
Does a big move off the low mean a stock is a good buy?
Not on its own. The DT ratio measures distance travelled off the low, not the quality of the trend above it. The most extended name on the 2026-07-08 board, ILLR at 200.8 times its low, has an RS of only 63 and is in Stage 1 basing, a low-priced squeeze rather than a leader. The terminal reports the condition; it does not recommend a trade. To judge whether the run is real, read the DT number next to the RS rank and the Weinstein stage.
What is the difference between the DT number and RS?
The DT number is close divided by the 52-week lowest low, so it measures how far a single stock has run off its own bottom. RS is a 0-to-99 rank of a stock's relative strength against the rest of the market, so it measures how the stock is performing versus everything else. A name can have a huge DT and a low RS at the same time, which is the signature of a squeeze off a broken bottom rather than a genuine leader.
How do I filter Double Trouble down to just the strong names?
Add a relative-strength predicate: dt rs>90 keeps only the extended names that also rank in the top decile of relative strength. On the 2026-07-08 close that leaves the RS 96-to-99 cohort (SNDK, WOLF, RXT, AGL, STAK) in Stage 2 uptrends and drops the low-priced base rockets. You can also read the STG column by eye and keep the high-DT names that read Stage 2.
Is the dt screen real-time?
No. The tickerstance terminal is end-of-day. The DT ratio, the RS rank, the stage and every other column are computed from the official market close and stamped with that date. A dt screen you run after the close describes where prices settled that session, not the next one, and there are no intraday quotes in it.