The Live Flow score explained, 0 to 99

Two stocks are both up 2%. One rose steadily all day, held above its average price and is still climbing. The other spiked at the open and has been sliding back ever since. The percentage change is identical; the quality of the move is not. The Live Flow score is built to tell those two apart.

Two sides, ranked separately

Every F&O stock is put on one side of the market: bullish if it trades above yesterday's close, bearish if below. Each side is scored on its own, so a bullish 80 means "stronger than most of today's gainers" and a bearish 80 means "weaker than most of today's losers".

The six measures

For each stock, Live Flow measures six things and ranks the stock against the rest of its side on each one:

#	Measure	Bullish side rewards	Bearish side rewards
1	Size of the move	A bigger % gain	A bigger % fall
2	Range position	Price near the day's high	Price near the day's low
3	Distance from VWAP	Price well above VWAP	Price well below VWAP
4	Time vs VWAP	Most of the day spent above VWAP	Most of the day spent below VWAP
5	Buy/sell volume	A high estimated buy share	A high estimated sell share
6	Last-30-minute drift	Still rising in the last half hour	Still falling in the last half hour

VWAP is the volume-weighted average price of the day: roughly what the average share traded today cost. Staying above it means buyers have been willing to pay up all day. More in VWAP and volume at price.

The buy/sell estimate comes from where each 5-minute candle closed inside its own range: a close near the high counts most of that candle's volume as buying, a close near the low as selling. It is an estimate from price and volume, not an order-book feed.

From six ranks to one number

Each measure gives the stock a percentile rank within its side (0 = weakest, 1 = strongest). The score is the average of the six ranks, scaled to 0–99. Stocks are then sorted by score, which gives the #rank/of on each card, the P percentile, and the conviction dots (the score divided into five steps).

Because the score is a ranking, it is always relative to today's crowd. On a day when everything rallies, a stock can be up 3% and still score 40 because thirty others look better.

What a high score tells you

• The move is broad-based across the measures, not just a big percentage.
• Price is holding its gains (near the high, above VWAP) rather than giving them back.
• The move is still alive late in the session, not just an opening spike.

What it does not tell you

• Where the stock goes next. A high score describes the day so far.
• Whether the price is a good entry. A stock far above VWAP can score highly exactly when it is most stretched. That is why each stock's chart (click its card) also shows a zone, a stop level and the R:R; see Support, buy zone, target and R:R.
• News risk. Results, block deals and announcements can override any intraday pattern.

How to use it

1. Start from the side the market favours: compare the bullish and bearish counts on the top bar.
2. Within that side, look at the stocks scoring in the top band (four or five conviction dots).
3. Prefer high scores in sectors that are also strong (why sectors matter).
4. Then open the chart and check its zone and R:R. A great score with a poor R:R usually means "already moved".

The score narrows 200-odd stocks to a handful worth watching. The decision is still yours.