Breakout (technical Analysis)

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.

Technical analysis
Concepts
  • Support and resistance
  • Trend line
  • Breakout
  • Market trend
  • Dead cat bounce
  • Elliott wave principle
  • Fibonacci retracements
  • Pivot point
  • Dow theory
Charts
  • Candlestick chart
  • OHLC chart
  • Line chart
  • Point and figure chart
  • Kagi chart
Patterns
Chart
  • 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
Candlestick
Simple
  • Doji
  • Hammer
  • Hanging man
  • Inverted hammer
  • Shooting star
  • Marubozu
  • Spinning top
Complex
  • Three white soldiers
  • Three Black Crows
  • Morning star
  • Hikkake pattern
Indicators
Trend
  • 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)
Momentum
  • Relative strength index (RSI)
  • Stochastic oscillator
  • True strength index (TSI)
  • Williams %R (%R)
Volume
  • 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)
Volatility
  • Average true range (ATR)
  • Bollinger Bands (BB)
  • Donchian channel
  • Standard deviation (σ)
Other
  • Advance–decline line (ADL)
  • Arms index (TRIN)
  • Commodity channel index (CCI)
  • Coppock curve
  • Keltner channel
  • McClellan oscillator
  • Ulcer Index
  • Ultimate oscillator