Support and resistance levels enable traders to project how far they believe a currency pair will move. It also tells them at what points the price action of a currency pair may turn around and start moving in the opposite direction.
Sometimes, the markets change direction due to a shift in some underlying fundamental factor. The market change of direction due to the shift in underlying economic factors is strong enough to cause a currency pair to break through a previously established support and resistance level. When a previous support and resistance level is broken by the markets, new support and resistance levels are established. However, the broken levels may still have some influence on the market in the future.
Sometimes there are attempted breakouts, this is also known as False Breakouts. With experience, it will become clear to you that prices do not always stop at exactly the same points each time. So if you are going to use strict requirements for your support and resistance, those levels may not hold up every time. This way, you are going to fake yourself out of a lot of valid price movements.
Even when you take all the precautions with your level of support and resistance, you may become victim of a false breakout. Naturally, you will ask how I can tell when the price has truly broken through support and resistance.
There are two methods that help you screen out a false breakout with a true breakout. Setting price-amplitude benchmarks and identifying role reversals.
Setting price amplitude benchmarks involves analyzing a chart to see if you can identify any moments when the price momentarily poked through the prevailing support and resistance level before pulling back and once again adhering to the previous level.
The dips through the predetermined levels are usually short lived. You can draw a secondary support and resistance lines which you can then utilize as your price-amplitude benchmarks.
A price amplitude benchmark tells you that if the price breaks through the predetermined level but does not break through the benchmark, you dont need to worry about a change in the direction of the trend. However, if the price has enough momentum to breach the benchmark, it has a good chance of continuing in the new direction.
Identifying role reversals method involves watching the price action to see if support levels turn into resistance levels, then, watching if the resistance levels turn into support levels. Many times, you will see the price action bounce off a level of resistance, turn around and start heading lower and again bounce off the previous resistance level.
When a resistance level is broken, that same level will turn into a support level. Conversely when a support level is broken, that same level will turn into a resistance level. You should use both the benchmark and the role reversal confirmations in your trading analysis to screen out false breakout from a true breakout.
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