Which Stocks Are Breaking Out on Volume Today

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1. 01The terminal command bo runs a four-percent breakout screen: it returns every name that closed up at least 4% on volume greater than the prior day, with a fifty-day average dollar-volume floor of $1M baked in. On the 2026-07-08 close it returned fifty names.
2. 02bo is a same-day event flag, not a leadership rank. On the same fifty-row list the relative-strength column ran from 7 to 99, so a strong breakout and a junk pop sat side by side.
3. 03The event (the breakout) and the context (does a leader own it) are different questions. A 4% pop in a RS 7 name like SKYQ is noise; a 4% break in a RS 99 Stage 2 name like AGL, CUE, BAND or PENG is a leader clearing a level.
4. 04Refine with bo | rs>90 to keep only the breakouts whose relative strength is in the top decile of the market, dropping the low-RS pops and leaving the leaders.
5. 05Relative volume reads the conviction behind a move. PENG broke out up 25.1% on 4.1 times its normal volume, the textbook row on the 2026-07-08 screen.
6. 06The $1M average-dollar-volume floor is already inside bo, so the thinnest, most manipulable names never reach the list. Everything is computed from the close and stamped with it.

bo fires on three conditions at once, all measured against the close. The stock closed at least four percent above the prior day's close (close divided by previous close is 1.04 or more). Today's volume was greater than yesterday's volume, so the gain came on expanding, not contracting, trade. And the name clears a liquidity floor: its fifty-day average dollar volume is at least one million dollars, which quietly removes the thinnest, most manipulable tickers before you ever see the list.

That third condition is the one most homemade breakout scans forget. Without it, every list is polluted by names that gap on a thousand shares and cannot be traded at size. With it baked in, the fifty rows you get are at least real markets. The list arrives sorted by breakout strength, so the cleanest thrusts sit at the top, but sort order is not the same as quality. A strong-looking thrust in a weak stock is still a weak stock.

Type bo and the terminal runs the four-percent filter across the universe and lays the survivors out in a table. Read the columns and the split becomes obvious. RS is the 0-to-99 relative-strength rank, the single most useful column for triage. The percent-change column shows how far the stock ran today. RVOL is relative volume, today's trade against its own recent normal, so you can tell a breakout on a trickle from one on a flood. Average dollar volume confirms the name is liquid, and the stage tells you whether the stock was already in an uptrend or basing when it popped.

On the session below the top of the list is exactly what you want a breakout screen to surface. AGL broke out four percent at RS 99 in a Stage 2 uptrend. CUE ran 5.9 percent at RS 99 on 2.1 times normal volume. BAND cleared 4.3 percent at RS 99 on 1.5 times volume. PENG is the textbook row: up 25.1 percent at RS 99 on 4.1 times its normal volume and 208.8 million dollars of turnover, a leader breaking out with the whole market watching. SIMO joins them at RS 98. These are strong stocks clearing levels on conviction.

But the same fifty rows carry the other kind. KOD popped 6.1 percent at RS 37. CIEN ran 5.3 percent at RS 39. SKYQ jumped 27.3 percent at RS 7, a bigger one-day move than any leader on the screen and almost certainly noise: a weak stock having a loud day. The screen flagged all of them honestly, because all of them cleared four percent on rising volume. Telling them apart is the next step, and it is the RS column that does it.

Here is the distinction the screen is built to teach. The breakout is an event: a fact about what a stock did today. The relative-strength rank is context: a fact about where that stock stands against the rest of the market over months. bo answers the first question for every name at once. It does not answer the second, and it is not trying to.

That is why the RS column on a single bo screen can run from 7 to 99. The same four-percent event means one thing in a RS 7 name and something else entirely in a RS 99 name. SKYQ up 27.3 percent at RS 7 is a weak stock spiking, the kind of move that fades as fast as it came. AGL up 4.0 percent at RS 99 in a Stage 2 uptrend is a market leader adding another level to a trend that was already in force. The screen cannot tell you which is which. The RS column can.

Relative volume adds the conviction reading on top of the rank. A breakout on 1.1 times normal volume is a shrug; a breakout on 4.1 times normal volume, as PENG posted, is the market committing. Rank tells you whether the stock is worth watching at all; RVOL tells you how much size stood behind today's specific move. Together they turn a flat list of fifty pops into a ranked picture of which breakouts have both leadership and conviction behind them.

Every dot broke out at least 4% on the 2026-07-08 bo screen. The RS axis separates a leader clearing a level (PENG, right) from a low-RS pop (SKYQ, left).

Once you know the RS column is doing the sorting work, the refinement writes itself. bo | rs>90 takes the same breakout screen and keeps only the names whose relative strength is in the top decile of the market. The low-RS pops fall away and what remains is breakouts inside leadership: the AGLs, CUEs and PENGs, not the SKYQs.

This is the whole funnel in a few extra characters. bo is the event feed, every name that broke out today. Adding rs>90 is the context gate, keeping only the ones a leader owns. You can set the threshold to taste: bo | rs>80 is a looser cut, bo | rs>95 a stricter one. The screen still reports every breakout underneath; the filter just decides how much of the tape you want to look at.

bo is computed from the close and stamped with it. It is not a live intraday scanner and does not pretend to catch a breakout while it is happening. A breakout you read after the close is a description of a session that already ended, and tomorrow can hand any of these names straight back.

A single four-percent close on rising volume is an event, not a trend, and plenty of them fail the very next session. The RS column exists precisely because it carries months of context into a one-day snapshot: a breakout in a name that has been strong for a quarter is a different animal from a breakout in a name spiking out of nowhere. The event tells you what happened today; the rank tells you whether today fits a longer story.

And the terminal reports conditions, it does not tell you what to do with them. 'Fifty names broke out and a handful of them are RS 99 leaders' is a fact about the tape. Whether any of it belongs in your own book depends on your strategy, your timeframe, and your risk, and the screen leaves that judgment to you. It shows you where size showed up today and how strong those names are. The trade is yours.

The breakout screen and its refinements are part of the tickerstance terminal, where a typed command puts a question to the tape. The interactive terminal is a Pro feature at $28 a month, grandfathered, 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 bo to see tonight's breakouts, then add bo | rs>90 to keep only the ones inside leadership. The event is easy to find. The screen's real job is telling you which events a leader owns.

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Keep reading

• Four Percent BreakoutThe metric explainer: what the four-percent-on-volume filter is, where Stockbee's threshold came from, and why a low bar catches moves early.
• Reading VolumeHow to read volume itself: relative volume, dry-up and expansion, and why a breakout without volume behind it is only a drift.
• Stockbee MomentumThe screen family bo belongs to: Pradeep Bonde's momentum scans, and how the four-percent breakout fits alongside Double Trouble and Trend Intensity.
• Finding LeadersThe relative-strength context that turns a raw breakout list into a leadership list, and how the RS rank is computed.
• Open the terminalType bo yourself to see tonight's breakouts, then bo | rs>90 to keep only the leaders, after every U.S. market close.