A breakout is when prices pass through and stay through an area of support or resistance. On the technical analysis chart a break out occurs when price of a stock or commodity exits an area pattern.
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Technical analysis
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- Support and resistance
- Trend line
- Breakout
- Market trend
- Dead cat bounce
- Elliott wave principle
- Fibonacci retracements
- Pivot point
- Dow theory
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| Charts |
- Candlestick chart
- OHLC chart
- Line chart
- Point and figure chart
- Kagi chart
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| Patterns |
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- Head and shoulders
- Cup and handle
- Double top and double bottom
- Triple top and triple bottom
- Broadening top
- Price channels
- Wedge pattern
- Triangle
- Flag and pennant
- Island reversal
- Gap
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Candlestick
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Simple
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- Doji
- Hammer
- Hanging man
- Inverted hammer
- Shooting star
- Marubozu
- Spinning top
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Complex
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- Three white soldiers
- Three Black Crows
- Morning star
- Hikkake pattern
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| Indicators |
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Trend
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- Average directional index (ADX)
- Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō
- Moving average convergence/divergence (MACD)
- Mass index
- Moving average (MA)
- Parabolic SAR (SAR)
- Smart money index (SMI)
- Trix
- Vortex Indicator (VI)
- Know sure thing oscillator (KST)
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Momentum
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- Relative strength index (RSI)
- Stochastic oscillator
- True strength index (TSI)
- Williams %R (%R)
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Volume
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- Accumulation/Distribution index
- Money flow index (MFI)
- On-balance volume (OBV)
- Volume–price trend (VPT)
- Force index (FI)
- Negative volume index (NVI)
- Ease of movement
- Put/call ratio (PCR)
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Volatility
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- Average true range (ATR)
- Bollinger Bands (BB)
- Donchian channel
- Standard deviation (σ)
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Other
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- Advance–decline line (ADL)
- Arms index (TRIN)
- Commodity channel index (CCI)
- Coppock curve
- Keltner channel
- McClellan oscillator
- Ulcer Index
- Ultimate oscillator
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