Skip to main content
← All terms

Chart Patterns

Shakeout

Also called: shakeouts, shook, shook out, shake out, shakeout candle

When a stock dips below a prior support level or the bottom of a base, triggering everyone's stops, and then snaps right back. Shakeouts are designed to shake out weak holders before a real move and the low of a shakeout candle becomes one of the strongest levels you can find because it just proved it can absorb the selling.

On the Chart

In Context

TLN quiet after earnings, big lower wick gives a similar shakeout feel as GEV with a double bottom

Death by a Thousand Cuts·Digest

Perfect flat base, major shakeout candle back into the base, I traded it a few times but kept getting stopped.

Nothing's Changed Yet·Digest

When there's a big lower wick, especially on a shakeout candle, the low of that wick is a level I always come back to because someone was willing to step in there hard enough to create it.

Rotation to Defensive Names Continues·Digest

They reclaim whatever level they shook out through fast and the chart looks back to what it did before.

95% Deployed Into the Holidays·Digest

GEV and ASML weekly closes both constructive, shakeout confirmed

Shaken Out But Not Moving On·Digest

Referenced In

Related Terms