Support & Resistance
Identify key price levels where markets turn
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What Is Support?
Support is a price level where buying pressure historically prevents price from falling further. Think of it as a floor. When price approaches support, buyers step in, creating demand that pushes price back up.
What Is Resistance?
Resistance is a ceiling where selling pressure stops price from rising. When price reaches resistance, sellers enter the market. The more times a level is tested, the more significant it becomes.
Role Reversal
When support breaks, it often becomes resistance — and vice versa. This "role reversal" is one of the most powerful concepts in technical analysis. A broken floor becomes a ceiling that price struggles to break back above.
Trading S/R Levels
Look for bounces at support (buy opportunities) and rejections at resistance (sell opportunities). Use candlestick patterns at these levels for confirmation. Never trade S/R in isolation — always seek confluence with other factors.
Quick check
Did it stick?
Try to answer each one before you peek at the explanation.
1
When a support level breaks, what does it often become?
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The more times a support level is tested and holds, the weaker it becomes.
3
What should you look for when price reaches a support level?