Adaptive Price Zone - APZ

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