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Price action
13 guides in Finabase Learn
- Breakouts and false breakouts: what the data says about each What a breakout is, why so many fail, and what volume and follow-through change, tested on 162 breakouts in 15 large US stocks and ETFs from 2025 to 2026.
- Chart gaps: common, breakaway, runaway, exhaustion and island gaps How to read the five classic chart gaps, what each says about a trend, how often true gaps fill by size, and real AMD, Meta and Alphabet examples from 2025.
- Dead Cat Bounce A brief, short-lived rebound in a falling stock or market that fails and gives way to further declines.
- Downtrend A series of lower highs and lower lows in price, showing that sellers have the upper hand.
- Gap trading: price gap types, gap fills and what the data shows What price gaps are, the four classic gap types, how often gaps fill based on two years of data for 10 large US stocks and ETFs, and the risks of trading them.
- How to read candlestick charts: a guide with real data Read any candlestick chart: the four prices in every candle, what bodies and shadows reveal, how the Finabase scanner measures them, and what 57,000 patterns did next.
- Price gap A space on a chart where a bar opens above the prior high or below the prior low, leaving a range where no trading occurred.
- Support A price level where a falling stock has repeatedly stopped and turned up, because buying has tended to outweigh selling there.
- Support and resistance: why price levels form and how to use them Why support and resistance levels form, how to find and rank them, why they are zones not lines, how role reversal and round numbers work, with SPY and MSFT examples.
- Trend The general direction a price is moving over time, up, down or sideways, defined by its sequence of highs and lows.
- Trends and trendlines: how to identify a trend and draw it correctly How to tell an uptrend from a downtrend with swing highs and lows, draw a trendline that means something, and judge when a break matters, on real SPY data.
- Uptrend A market or stock whose price makes a series of higher highs and higher lows, the chart signature of sustained buying pressure.
- What is technical analysis? A complete guide to reading charts What technical analysis is, the assumptions behind it, how price, volume and time fit together, trend following vs mean reversion, and what the evidence says.
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