#MarketPullback

A pullback is a brief decline or pause in a generally upward price trend of a stock or other asset. Investors who are confident that the pullback will be brief use it as a buying opportunity. A pullback can occur for many reasons, some of which are unrelated to the fundamentals of the stock.

Technical analysts, who track the price movements of stocks to establish trends, identify the "support level," or lowest price that a stock is likely to reach before buyers step back in.

A pullback is similar to a retracement​ or consolidation, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. The term pullback is usually applied to short-lived price declines—only a few consecutive sessions—before the uptrend resumes.

Pullbacks are widely seen as buying opportunities if the stock has been showing a generally upward price movement.

For example, many stocks experience a significant increase after a positive earnings announcement, followed by a sharp pullback as traders sell shares to take profits. Others step in to buy, seeing the positive earnings as a fundamental signal that the stock will resume its uptrend.2