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

Charts

Patterns

Simple	Doji Hammer Hanging man Inverted hammer Marubozu Shooting star Spinning top

Complex	Hikkake pattern Morning star Three Black Crows Three white soldiers

Support & resistance	Bottom Fibonacci retracement Pivot point (PP) Top

Trend	Average directional index (ADX) Know sure thing oscillator (KST) Ichimoku Kinkō Hyō Moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) Mass index Moving average (MA) Parabolic SAR (SAR) Smart money index (SMI) Trend line Trix Vortex Indicator (VI)

Momentum	Relative strength index (RSI) Stochastic oscillator True strength index (TSI) Ultimate oscillator Williams %R (%R)

Volume	Accumulation/distribution line Ease of movement (EMV) Force index (FI) Money flow index (MFI) Negative volume index (NVI) On-balance volume (OBV) Put/call ratio (PCR) Volume–price trend (VPT)

Volatility	Average true range (ATR) Bollinger Bands (BB) Donchian channel CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) Standard deviation (σ)

Other	Advance–decline line (ADL) Arms index (TRIN) Commodity channel index (CCI) Coppock curve Keltner channel McClellan oscillator Ulcer Index