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Below the Top Gainers / Top Losers panels on the Indices page sits the New Highs / New Lows section — a fast read on which individual stocks are breaking out to (or breaking down from) extremes across a whole index at once. Two panels, side by side:
  • New Highs — green, left
  • New Lows — red, right
Each header carries a running count (▲ 23 highs, ▼ 5 lows) — a quick breadth read that complements the Market Breadth panel up top. Each row shows the ticker, company, a bar scaled to its move on the day, a badge like new 52W high · +1.4%, and — to the right of the day’s move — a z-score (e.g. +2.1σ): how unusual today’s move is versus that name’s own past year of daily moves. The bigger the σ, the more the move stands out from its normal range.

The controls

Four controls live in the New Highs header and drive both panels together:

What “qualifies”

The Window sets the lookback and the qualifier is always “did it print that extreme on the latest bar.” So 52W is the classic 52-week-high list; switch to 3M and you get names making a fresh 3-month high today. Basis decides what value is tested:
  • Close — today’s close vs the prior closes in the window. Cleaner and less noisy; matches how Market Breadth computes.
  • Intraday — today’s high vs the prior window’s highs (and today’s low vs prior lows) — the traditional “tagged a new 52W high” definition.
Mode decides how close counts:
  • New — the stock actually made the extreme on the latest bar. Sorted by the biggest move on the day.
  • Near — the stock is trading within 1% of its window extreme (coiling). A superset of New, sorted by the day’s move just like the New list, with each badge (near 52W high · -0.4%) showing how far that name sits from the extreme.

How most people use it

  • Breakout scan — Universe = Russell 2000, Window = 52W, Mode = New: where is small-cap leadership printing fresh highs?
  • Coiling watch — flip Mode to Near to catch names pressing against a high before they break, not after.
  • Breadth gut-check — the ▲ highs / ▼ lows counts at a glance: a tape making new index highs while new-high breadth thins out is worth a second look.
The lists cap at the most relevant ~25 names per side and scroll if there are more — common in the 3M and All Markets views, where dozens of names can qualify at once.

Bars ⇄ chart view

The header toggle (same as Top Gainers/Losers) flips the lists into line charts — the top 10 highs and top 10 lows as %-rebased lines over your selected window, with a clickable legend (click a ticker to hide/show its line), crosshair readout, and scroll-zoom. Handy for seeing whether the new-high list is one theme moving together or a broad advance.