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What is a Breakaway Gap? A breakaway gap is the point in time when a stock price changes direction (it goes from increasing to decreasing or vice versa). After this happens, lots of trading occurs depending upon the direction of the price.

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Finance a la shmoop.. what is breakaway gap? well Letterman has one yeah that but [David Letterman's front teeth appear]

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here we're talking about a trading pattern like on a stock chart like this

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thing where the breakaway gap is a sudden change in trading pattern like

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you're walking along just fine and easily recognized in comfy double bottom

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pattern like this but then blam the company reports an awesome quarter in [Stock chart dramatically rises]

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the stock zooms upward outside of the pattern it goes from here to here and

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well now what like there's no pattern yet so what do we do well depending on

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your lean prayer might help is the stock heading down now to normalize or up more

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because now everyone thinks it's the next Google and wants to own it for the

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long run so breakaways go up like this and

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sometimes they go down like this but either way they break away from a [Arrow points to stock charts breakaway gap]

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pattern and yeah, clearly this was not the next Google! oh well

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