What metrics best indicate whether a breakout is real or a stop-hunt?

[chainsniff]

Advanced traders validate breakouts using volume expansion, liquidation clusters, delta divergence, and HTF (higher time frame) closes. A true breakout typically follows through with rising open interest and positive funding alignment, whereas stop-hunts show rapid wicks, OI wipeouts, and a mean-reversion back into the range.

[Nahid Hossen]

True breakouts come with strong volume and clean retests — stop-hunts rarely do.

[Rimon Khan]

Order-book depth and liquidations data often reveal whether the move is genuine.