How to use Stage2Stocks.
What this is (and what it isn't)
Every stock on the NSE is, at any moment, in one of four stages: basing (Stage 1), advancing (Stage 2), topping (Stage 3), or declining (Stage 4). You want to be in Stage 2 — and you want to enter it when the broader market agrees.
That’s the whole idea. Stage2Stocks runs the analysis on the entire market every evening so you don’t have to eyeball 2,000 charts. It is end-of-day — the numbers update after the ~3:30 PM IST close, using the day’s final prices. It is free, and you need no broker to use it. It is not a tips service, a Telegram channel, or financial advice — there are no buy/sell calls here. It hands you the map and the odds; the decision stays yours.
The workflow — top-down, in this order
The single most common mistake is starting with a stock. Start two steps earlier and three-quarters of the bad trades are eliminated before you ever open a chart. The order is the method:
1. Regime — Market Timing answers “can I even act today?” A Stage 2 breakout in a hostile tape fails far more often than the same breakout when breadth is expanding.
2. Rotation — Rotation shows which sectors and industries the money is moving into. Trade with the leaders, not against them.
3. Screen — the Screener narrows the whole market to the names that fit your stage, quality, sector and technical filters.
4. The stock — only now open the chart: the stage timeline, the setup, the context.
The tools, one by one
Every page has a job. Here’s where each one fits in the workflow above:
Good to know
The details that make the site click once you know them:
- The Setup Score (0–10) is the quality gauge on every Stage 2 name — a blend of trend, pattern, proximity to highs and stage maturity. 8+ is prime. It’s earned from forward-return history, not a vibe.
- The Edge grade on a name tells you how setups in that same score band and sector have historically performed vs the all-stock base rate — a Strong / Solid / Even / Weak read with the win-rate lift.
- Everything is end-of-day. Numbers refresh after the NSE close (~4 PM IST). A stock “coming in the scan” means it cleared that evening’s filters.
- Free, no broker required. A broker only matters for the Live real-time upgrade — everything else runs on last-close data for everyone.
- Your filters live in the URL. Any Screener view is a shareable link, and a free account lets you save named scans to reopen in one click.
- The daily digest email (free account) drops the market wrap and the night’s new setups into your inbox, and archives to the journal.
- The numbers are computed, never authored. Every stat, table and score is code-generated from the data — there’s no human quietly typing figures.
Start here
Two ways in, depending on what you want today:
Open the Screener and sort by setup score — the top of that list is tonight’s best-quality Stage 2 names.
Open the Screener →A free account adds a watchlist, saved scans, and a daily email of new setups before the open.
Create a free account →