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Breakout

QUICK DEFINITION

Breakout in Elliott Wave Theory: A price movement above a defined resistance level or pattern boundary, typically accompanied by increased volume. In Elliott Wave context, breakouts often confirm the start of Wave 3 or the completion of a triangle.

What Breakout Means

A price movement above a defined resistance level or pattern boundary, typically accompanied by increased volume. In Elliott Wave context, breakouts often confirm the start of Wave 3 or the completion of a triangle.

Where You'll See It

Breakout appears regularly in Artavest's weekly wave-count analysis across 108 US stocks and ETFs. It's part of the technical family of Elliott Wave concepts and shows up most often when analysts are applying technical analysis tools — RSI, MACD, moving averages — alongside the wave count.

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