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Range (sideways market)(Range)

A period in which price swings between a defined upper and lower boundary without establishing direction. The boundaries accumulate liquidity; they produce either a breakout or a false breakout.

Also written as: yatay piyasa · range · yatay seyir

Mean reversion strategies work inside the range, while momentum strategies work on the breakout; using the same strategy in both regimes is the most common cause of performance loss.

The Asian session range is frequently used as a breakout reference at the London/New York open.

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