What is breakout?Breakout
Price decisively moving past support, resistance or a pattern boundary, often on rising volume.
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- Forex: Pending Orders & RiskBuy Stop: Buying the Breakout
A buy order placed above the current price: it automatically buys when the price breaks out upward.
- Technical Analysis: Candles & ChartsClassic Chart Patterns
Head and shoulders, double bottoms, triangles, flags… these recurring shapes record shifts in the balance between buyers and sellers.
- Technical Analysis: Candles & ChartsVolume: The Force Behind Price
Price tells you what happened; volume tells you how many people took part.
- Volume & Volatility IndicatorsOn-Balance Volume (OBV)
Add the volume on up days and subtract it on down days: the running OBV roughly shows whether money is flowing in or out.
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