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title: catalyst
description: "A catalyst for price action to suddenly adopt a new behavior can be organic such as a pattern’s breakout or calculable inflection, or artificial such as the knee-jerk reaction to a headline."
url: "https://viditrade.com/knowledge-base/jargon/catalyst/"
updated: "2023-07-06"
category: Jargon
---

# catalyst

A catalyst for price action to suddenly adopt a new behavior can be organic such as a pattern’s breakout or calculable inflection, or artificial such as the knee-jerk reaction to a headline.