The Churning Signal
High volume but no price progress. Supply overwhelming demand.
What does the Churning signal detect?
Churning flags heavy effort with no result: volume at least 50% above average while price closes essentially flat, under a 1% change. All that turnover went somewhere. Supply absorbed every share demand produced.
How does Signal52 compute Churning?
Two conditions on the same session: volume at or above 1.5 times the 50-day average, and an absolute daily price change below 1%. Effort measured against outcome.
How should you read a Churning signal?
Context decides the meaning. Churning after a long advance is classic topping behavior, with enthusiastic buying met by patient and larger selling. The same tape after a decline can be constructive absorption. Signal52 flags it as risk because on the momentum-oriented names the scanner surfaces, high-volume stalls precede pullbacks more often than continuations.
Risk Signals in the Elite Score: Risk signals carry no positive weight. They are warning flags that change how a score should be read. A score of 10+ with no risk flags is a fundamentally different setup than the same score with active warnings.
Which stocks show Churning today?
42 of 1,292 screened stocks show Churning as of . The top 15 by Elite Score are below.
| Symbol | Elite Score | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSGR | 4.8 | 35.00 | 0.00% |
| ADUS | 4.5 | 125.75 | +0.17% |
| SLAB | 4.0 | 222.10 | 0.00% |
| BLCO | 3.8 | 20.01 | +0.05% |
| MKTN | 3.8 | 28.35 | 0.00% |
| TTC | 3.2 | 108.84 | +0.82% |
| BSM | 2.5 | 14.74 | -0.74% |
| CGVV | 2.5 | 31.63 | +0.54% |
| TRPA | 2.0 | 38.94 | 0.00% |
| JMSB | 1.8 | 23.25 | 0.00% |
| ACCO | 1.6 | 5.46 | -0.73% |
| CRL | 1.6 | 338.54 | 0.00% |
| BTSG | 1.5 | 66.26 | -0.94% |
| INRO | 1.5 | 35.77 | -0.62% |
| SIMO | 1.5 | 187.90 | 0.00% |