Accumulation & Distribution

What this page is

For every stock the backend adds the ten largest broker buy quantities and the ten largest broker sell quantities of the day. Strength is the first divided by the second. Above 1.00 the biggest hands took in more than they let go, and the verdict reads Accumulation; below 1.00 it reads Distribution. The top-five ratio settles cases that sit near the line.

A single day of that is thin evidence, so the page also carries ten trading days of Strength for whichever stock you select, and three lists that count how many of the last ten days each stock spent on each side.

Why it helps you

When to use it, and where to find it

• After the close. The ranking is built only from broker numbers, and these come with the full floor sheet for the day, which is downloaded from a paid market-data feed after the market closes.
• Before adding to or trimming a position, as one input among several.
• Weekly, using the ten-day totals lists, to see which names have been on one side of the ledger consistently.

Try it — a short walkthrough

1. 1
   Set a single completed day

   Put the same date in both boxes. Over a range the daily quantities are summed and then classified once — it is not an average of daily ratios, so one very large day cannot be smoothed away.

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2. 2
   Sort by Strength

   Click the Strength heading to bring the strongest accumulation to the top, and click again to bring the strongest distribution up instead.

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3. 3
   Open the ten-day history for a name

   Click any row. The graph on the right fills with that stock's last ten trading days of Strength, green at or above 1.00 and red below. The page remembers your last pick.

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4. 4
   Cross-check against the totals lists

   Look for the same symbol in the accumulated-on-more-days list. A stock that appears in both the day's top of the table and the ten-day list is the one worth investigating.

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Every part of the page

In the order you meet them on screen, each with a close-up of the real thing. The numbers match the dots on the figure above.

1

The floor-sheet filter menu

Every floor-sheet filter has its own page, all listed here. Accumulation & Distribution is the one highlighted.

How — Click any name to jump to that filter. Your sector, stock and date choices carry across.

2

The formula

For each stock the backend adds up the 10 largest broker BUY quantities and the 10 largest broker SELL quantities of the day. Strength = top-10 buy qty ÷ top-10 sell qty. The top-5 ratio is used to settle mixed cases.

How — The sector and stock pickers here narrow the table; the ⓘ repeats the formula and "Stocks" counts the rows on screen.

3

From and To

Set both boxes to the same trading day for one day, or open a range.

How — Over a range the daily quantities are summed FIRST and then re-classified — it is not an average of daily ratios.

• That distinction matters: a single huge day cannot be averaged away.

4

The verdict per stock

SN is the row number, Symbol the stock, What the verdict, Strength the ratio. Strength above 1.00 means Accumulation (green) — big hands bought more than they sold. Below 1.00 means Distribution (red).

How — Click any column heading to sort. Sorting by Strength puts the strongest accumulation (or, reversed, the strongest distribution) at the top.

5

The 10-day history graph

One bar per trading day for the selected stock — the last 10 trading days of Strength, green when 1.00 or more, red when below.

How — Click any stock in the table to load its history here. The page remembers your last pick, so the graph is already filled the next time you open it.

• A run of green bars is far more meaningful than one green day.

6

The 10-day totals lists

Three lists covering the last 10 trading days: stocks accumulated on MORE days than they were distributed, stocks distributed on more days, and ties where the two day-counts are equal.

How — Click a stock in any of the three lists to load it into the history graph above.

• These lists count DAYS, not net strength — a stock accumulated on 7 of 10 days sits in the accumulation list.
• Stocks with no accumulation and no distribution days are dropped, since there is nothing to show.

Reading the numbers

• Strength = top-10 broker buy quantity ÷ top-10 broker sell quantity, both in shares (कित्ता). 1.00 is the pivot; there is no neutral band.
• The verdict column is derived from Strength, not measured separately. Green is Accumulation, red is Distribution.
• The three totals lists count DAYS, not net strength. A stock accumulated on seven of the last ten days sits in the accumulation list even if the three distribution days were far larger.
• Stocks with no accumulation days and no distribution days are dropped from the lists rather than shown as zero.
• Every column heading sorts, with a dim arrow on inactive columns and an accent arrow on the active one.

What it does not do

• Accumulation and distribution here are labels for a ratio, not statements about anyone's intent. A broker executes for many clients at once, and the ten largest positions on a side can be ten unrelated orders.
• The measure is deliberately narrow: only the top ten brokers per side count. A stock whose flow was spread evenly across thirty houses gets a Strength near 1.00 whatever actually happened.
• It describes the day that already happened. Nothing on this page forecasts the next one.
• Broker numbers come only with the full floor sheet after the close, so today is not on the page during the session. Some older days were saved without broker numbers, so an old date may be empty.

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