Intermediate · Candlestick & chart patterns
Breakout and Retest
What it means
Price broke above a ceiling, came back to touch it and held, showing the old resistance now behaving as support and a move that may potentially continue upward.
At a glance
- Directional bias
- Bullish continuation
- Sessions to form
- 19 consecutive sessions
- Curriculum tier
- Intermediate
- Pattern family
- breakout and retest
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Practise Breakout and Retest in the SimulatorRelated patterns
Tweezer Top
bearishTwo consecutive sessions peak at almost exactly the same high, showing buyers repeatedly failing at one price and indicating a potential reversal downward.
Tweezer Bottom
bullishTwo consecutive sessions bottom at almost exactly the same low, showing sellers repeatedly failing at one price and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Three Inside Up
bullishA small up session is contained by the prior down session and a third session then closes above both, confirming selling momentum has stalled and a potential reversal is forming.
Three Inside Down
bearishA small down session is contained by the prior up session and a third session then closes below both, confirming buying momentum has stalled and a potential reversal is forming.
Three Outside Up
bullishAn up session completely covers the prior down session and a third session closes higher still, confirming buyers have taken control and indicating a potential reversal upward.
Three Outside Down
bearishA down session completely covers the prior up session and a third session closes lower still, confirming sellers have taken control and indicating a potential reversal downward.
Educational reference only. This describes what traders conventionally read into the Breakout and Retest formation. It is not a trading signal, a prediction or investment advice, and no pattern is reliable on its own. Finance Onyx is a simulated educational platform: all practice uses virtual capital and no order is ever routed to a broker or an exchange.