So, you’ve got two best friends. One friend is always on the move. The other friend sits on his or her butt all day with little activity. It’s safe to say that one friend is active and the other is a lazya**.
This is how we want you to remember active stocks. These are stocks that are on the move and in heavy demand with traders. These are also stocks that have a ton of outstanding shares (shares that can be bought). There is also a list of most active stocks, which means just that: the stocks that were on the move the most over a measurable amount of time.
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Finance: What is Breakaway Gap?7 Views
Finance a la shmoop.. what is breakaway gap? well Letterman has one yeah that but [David Letterman's front teeth appear]
here we're talking about a trading pattern like on a stock chart like this
thing where the breakaway gap is a sudden change in trading pattern like
you're walking along just fine and easily recognized in comfy double bottom
pattern like this but then blam the company reports an awesome quarter in [Stock chart dramatically rises]
the stock zooms upward outside of the pattern it goes from here to here and
well now what like there's no pattern yet so what do we do well depending on
your lean prayer might help is the stock heading down now to normalize or up more
because now everyone thinks it's the next Google and wants to own it for the
long run so breakaways go up like this and
sometimes they go down like this but either way they break away from a [Arrow points to stock charts breakaway gap]
pattern and yeah, clearly this was not the next Google! oh well
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