The chart checks and indicators, explained
Every chip on a Breakaway card measures one thing. Breakaway checks all of them for you, every 15 seconds, so you never have to work any of this out yourself. These pages are here if you want to know what a chip means, why traders watch it, and how the scanner scores it. The indicators traders know by name, from RSI to the golden cross, are here too, each shown on real stocks.
Where it all lives
Every lesson here is something Breakaway draws or checks for you.
The 14 chart checks, one guide each
Each check is a yes or a no on every stock. Breakaway runs them all for you.
The indicators traders know by name
What each one measures, shown on real stocks. None counts toward the Quality Score.
- What is RSI? The Relative Strength Index explained
- MACD explained: the MACD line, the signal line, and the histogram
- Golden cross and death cross: the 50-day and 200-day averages
- Support and resistance: how price levels are found
- Bollinger Bands explained: the 20-day average and two standard deviations
- Moving averages: the 50-day, the 200-day, simple and exponential
- Volume profile: the volume traded at each price
- Relative strength: a stock against the S&P 500
- ADX: the Average Directional Index and trend strength
The ideas behind the score, in plain words
Regimes, ratings, score history, squeezes, and more.
- Trending, transition, or choppy: the regime label
- What is a quality score for stocks? Breakaway's Quality Score explained
- Stock ratings explained: analyst ratings, letter grades, and scores
- Score history and persistence
- Predictive checks: the coil before the move
- Short squeeze setups: short interest, days to cover, and a strong chart
- Anchored VWAP
How to read insider and Congress trades
Who is buying, as the filings say it. The Insiders and Congress pages list the trades themselves.
More free pages to read
Funds, new listings, and how Breakaway compares, a page each.
Weighing Breakaway against the stock sites you use now? See how Breakaway compares, from each site's public pages.
Own a fund? See what is inside SPY, QQQ, SCHD, and more, each fund scored by the stocks inside.
Following a company that is going public? See the IPO calendar, with each new listing's first day and its Quality Score, and the quarterly IPO reports.
Looking for a free stock screener? See how Breakaway ranks every stock, with no account.
See the checks on today's market
Every lesson here is a filter in the scanner, run on every stock for you.

The lessons, as filters
- RSI, MACD, and the 200-day line.
- How many chart checks must fire, from 5 to 8.
- Then RVOL and how near the 52-week high.
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