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breakaway gap

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Breakaway Gap
A term used in technical analysis. A breakaway gap represents a gap in the movement of a stock price supported by levels of high volume.



The image shows a gap at the beginning of a large upward movement.

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If you chart it, the gap reflects a bullish movement when the price has gapped upwards and a bearish movement when the price has gapped downwards.

breakaway gap
In technical analysis, a gap in a chart pattern of price movement indicating a stock price has broken out of a trend on high volume. A breakaway gap is bullish if the price movement is upward and bearish if the price movement is downward. Compare runaway gap. See also exhaustion gap.
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