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www.CandlestickForums.com Breakout Gap Using Candlestick patterns as a guide, traders can identify and profit from trading a breakout gap in a stock. In general terms a breakout gap is a discontinuous pattern in stock charting.
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Using Candlestick patterns as a guide, traders can identify
and profit from trading a breakout gap in a stock.
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In general terms a breakout gap is a discontinuous pattern
in stock charting.
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It occurs when the prices of stocks break out from a
narrow or congested range of trading.
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Typically the high stock price for the day and the low stock
price for the day move gradually up and down day by
day.
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A break out gap will be when the stock price seems to jump out of the daily pattern, either
up or down, out of consolidation pattern.
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The common experience when a breakout gap occurs is
that the stock will move up rapidly and substantially.
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Those who learn to read Candlestick pattern
formations will be able to identify that pattern and will
typically be able to trade profitably.
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To learn both Candlestick analysis and specific trading
patterns an excellent idea is to take an online basic stock
market training class coupled with the Candlestick forum
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There are several types of gaps including runaway gaps,
exhaustion gaps, and common gaps, as well as breakout gaps.
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In each case stock prices move quickly from a relatively
continuous progression up, down, or sideways to a
discontinuous jump up or down.
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In each case the price jumps leave gaps on stock charts.
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Those interested only in long term investing can really dislike gaps, unless the
investor also is astute in technical analysis of stocks
using Candlestick chart analysis.
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Although the long term investor will not buy stock and sell stock frequently he or she
will be pleased to pick up a stock just before it goes up
substantially in price.
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The trader, who routinely uses Candlestick charting
techniques, will see a breakout gap and realize that
he or she may just be in trader heaven and ready to make a
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Identification of a breakout gap not only helps stock
traders but will be useful to stock options traders as well.
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An options trader who indentifies a breakout gap and reliably predicts a rise in stock price in a timely manner may be able to profit from buying
calls on the stock in question.
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The difference in buying call options instead of the stock is that the trader will hold the
option but not the obligation to buy.
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If the stock goes up in price as anticipated the trader will exercise the option for a
profit.
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If the stock does not go up in price or goes down then the trader will only lose the price of the premium paid for the
option.
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In general, the more rare the occurrence of this kind of gap
the more reliable it is.
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For example, in a volatile stock market, daily gaps in stock
price charting may be rather common.
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These, daily, gaps are less predictive than gaps that
occur over a week.
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More so, gaps over a month, or a year can be substantially more predictive of large and
rapid price moves.
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Thus the trader who is astute in reading a breakout gap may be able to profit substantially from the timely purchase of
the stock in question.
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