Trading in Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is quiet Tuesday, but the shares continue to trend higher. They may be about to break out again.

Breakouts can illustrate bullish dynamics. They are often followed by uptrends, which is why Palantir is Benzinga’s Stock of the Day.

As you can see on the chart, this happened with Palantir in April. After resistance around the $97.75 level was broken, a rapid and large move higher followed.

Technical analysis has a dubious reputation on Wall Street. But sometimes it deserves it. Many analysts mindlessly look for patterns on charts without understanding the trading and price action that makes these patterns form.

If understood and applied correctly, technical analysis is the study of psychology and supply and demand in a market.

If a stock is trending higher, it is because there is more demand than supply. There are more shares to be bought than there are to be sold.

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Buyers must be willing to outbid each other and pay premiums to draw sellers off the sidelines if they wish to acquire shares. This results in the stock going into an uptrend.

The dynamic changes when resistance is reached.

There are enough, or more than enough, sell orders to fill all the buy orders. Investors and traders who wish to acquire shares can do so without forcing the price higher. This is why rallies end or pause when they reach resistance.

Sometimes, stocks reverse and head lower after reaching resistance. This happens when some of the sellers become concerned that other sellers will undercut them. They know buyers will go to whoever is willing to sell at the lowest price.

So, they reduce the prices they will sell for. This price action can result in a snowball effect that forces the shares down.

But sometimes, when a stock reaches resistance, the buyers eventually overpower the sellers and push the price higher. The resistance breaks.

This can be a bullish dynamic. It could mean that the people who wanted to sell have either finished or canceled their orders. With this large amount of supply removed from the market, the stage could be set for a new uptrend to form.

New buyers will be forced to outbid each other and pay premiums. This could force the shares higher, and it may be about to happen again with Palantir.

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