# Breakout

*Trading & Technical Analysis — Finicade finance glossary*

A breakout is price moving decisively beyond a defined level of support or resistance, taken as the start of a new move. The recurring problem is the false breakout: price pushes just past the level, triggers the stops clustered there, and reverses. That pattern is common enough to have become a strategy in itself, traded deliberately against breakout buyers.

**Also known as:** breakout trading, false breakout, fakeout

**Related terms:** [Support and Resistance](https://finicade.com/glossary/support-and-resistance), [Trading Volume](https://finicade.com/glossary/trading-volume), [Trend Following](https://finicade.com/glossary/trend-following), [Chart Patterns](https://finicade.com/glossary/chart-patterns), [Swing Trading](https://finicade.com/glossary/swing-trading)

Source: https://finicade.com/glossary/breakout