Support & Resistance Practice
Support and resistance are the price levels where moves stall, bounce or break. Reading them well is the foundation under almost every other setup. Practice marking them and predicting the reaction.
Support is a price area where buying has repeatedly halted declines; resistance is where selling has repeatedly capped rallies. They are zones, not exact lines, and a broken level often flips role — old resistance becomes new support and vice versa.
How to spot it
- ✓ Find prices the market has reacted to more than once — multiple touches matter.
- ✓ Draw zones, not hairlines; let the wicks define the band.
- ✓ The more touches and the more recent, the more significant the level.
- ✓ Watch for role reversal after a clean break.
- ✓ Combine with a candle signal (hammer, engulfing) at the level for a sharper read.
⚠️ Common mistake
Drawing dozens of perfect lines after the fact. A level you can only see in hindsight is not tradeable — keep to the few obvious zones price is clearly respecting right now.
FAQ
Is support a single price or a zone?
Treat it as a zone. Wicks routinely poke through an exact line; a band a little above and below captures real behaviour far better.
What does it mean when support breaks?
A decisive break often turns that old support into new resistance on the way back up. The reaction on the retest is what traders watch. This page is practice, not advice.