A breakout is when price moves beyond a key support/resistance level, trend line, or consolidation zone, often leading to a strong move.

How to confirm a genuine breakout

1. Clear breakout level
The price overcomes a significant level (historical high/low, consolidation zone, moving average).

2. Volume Confirmation
The breakdown is accompanied by an increase in trading volume, which increases its significance.

3. Closing by level
It is important that the candle/bar closes outside the level, and not just touches it (excluding false breakouts).

4. Price acceleration after breakout
After the level is broken, the movement often accelerates, forming impulse candles.

What happens after the level is broken

5. Changing the role of a level
The broken support becomes resistance, and vice versa (the level can now act as a test zone).

6. Higher timeframe support
A breakout on a daily or weekly chart is more significant than on lower timeframes.

7. Lack of strong opposition
After the breakout there should not be a sharp return inside the range (otherwise it is a fakeout).

Fundamental context and chart patterns

8. Support by fundamental factors
The breakdown may be strengthened by news, macro statistics or changes in market sentiment.

9. Formation of patterns before a breakout
Before a breakout, figures often appear: triangles, flags, “head and shoulders” (in case of a reversal).

Retest of the broken level

10. Subsequent correction (level test)
After a breakout, there is often a rollback to the broken level to test it before continuing the trend.