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follow-through

When price keeps moving the same way after a signal, showing the move is real.

The fuller meaning

Continued movement in the signal's direction after a pattern, breakout or reversal candle. Engulfing patterns and breakouts need follow-through to be trusted; its absence, price stalling or slipping back, is an early sign of a false breakout.

follow-through.

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