The Churning Signal
High volume but no price progress. Supply overwhelming demand.
What it detects
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 Signal52 computes it
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 to read it
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.
Stocks showing Churning today
67 of 2,060 screened stocks show Churning as of . The top 15 by Elite Score are below.
| Symbol | Elite Score | Price | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| DBRG | 9.0 | 15.87 | +0.25% |
| ETW | 9.0 | 9.64 | +0.31% |
| AIZ | 8.5 | 281.31 | -0.38% |
| EA | 8.5 | 209.70 | -0.10% |
| ET | 8.0 | 20.33 | +0.25% |
| DSGR | 7.4 | 34.76 | +0.49% |
| BH | 7.0 | 393.04 | +0.33% |
| FAB | 6.0 | 107.17 | +0.85% |
| EVER | 5.5 | 23.86 | -1.00% |
| SRTA | 5.5 | 5.57 | +0.36% |
| AUGW | 5.0 | 34.64 | +0.52% |
| BMY | 5.0 | 65.89 | +0.64% |
| BOX | 5.0 | 31.76 | +0.19% |
| KIDS | 5.0 | 20.88 | +0.05% |
| KT | 4.5 | 18.46 | +0.44% |