A long U-shaped base (weak hands slowly leaving) plus a brief shallow pullback (the handle), then the breakout. The handle's dip is a shakeout — a small drop whose only job is to scare out the last impatient sellers before the move.
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The handle exists to…
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Shake out final sellers before the markup correct
Add volume
One last flush of the impatient. Their sells hand cheap shares to the breakout buyers.
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