Fast Moves, Support and Resistance, Price Action

Learn about 'fast moves' and aggressive reversals near support and resistance levels. Understand market psychology and momentum to avoid sudden pullbacks.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Support & Resistance

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: STOP CHASING THE FAST MOVES! They lead to NOTHING but LOSS! by Asia Forex Mentor – Ezekiel Chew — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to fast moves
  • 0:10 - Definition of a fast move
  • 0:30 - Fast move into resistance example
  • 0:40 - Why fast moves matter
  • 0:50 - Reversal swiftness after fast moves

Strategy overview

Support and resistance are price levels where earlier trading has left buyers or sellers willing to act again. What makes this entry unusual is the role the level plays: it is not the trigger to enter, it is the thing that ends the move. The source video is titled as a prohibition rather than a setup — "STOP CHASING THE FAST MOVES! They lead to NOTHING but LOSS!" — and its chapter map follows that framing, moving from a definition of what counts as a fast move (0:10), to a single case of one running into resistance (0:30), and then to two consequence beats (0:40, 0:50).

The ordering is the argument. Speed of arrival, not the level itself, is the variable under examination; the level appears only as the boundary where the move exhausts. The final marked beat — reversal swiftness after fast moves — is a claim about timing rather than direction: the risk to a late entrant is not that a reversal is certain, but that it arrives quickly enough to leave no room behind the entry. Note also that the demonstration is one-sided. The record marks a resistance example only, so the support mirror is carried by symmetry rather than shown, and all five markers fall inside the first minute, which caps how much of either side the video can develop.

What the record does not contain is a threshold. No candle count, no volatility reference, no timeframe and no indicator define where "normal" ends and "fast" begins, and no rules were extracted for this entry. Read it as a behavioural caution about chase entries into a level — a statement about when you are early or late relative to a move — rather than as a mechanical system; the work of specifying what counts as fast, and of drawing the levels the video assumes you already have, remains on the reader's side.

Topics

price action · trading strategy · support and resistance · fast moves · market reversals · trading psychology · momentum trading · price action strategy · trading education · market analysis

Frequently asked questions

What does "chasing a fast move" mean?

It refers to entering in the direction of a rapid move after most of it has already happened, rather than positioning before it. The source video devotes an early segment (0:10) to defining what qualifies as a fast move, but no numeric or volatility threshold appears in the decoded record.

Why does this video connect fast moves to support and resistance?

Because the level is where the move runs out. The marked example (0:30) shows a fast move arriving into resistance, so the level functions as the boundary that terminates the move rather than as an entry signal — an inversion of how support and resistance are usually taught.

Does the video give entry rules, indicators or timeframes?

No. No indicators, timeframes or extracted rules are attached to this entry, and its chapter markers all fall within the first minute. It is a conceptual warning about entry timing, not a specified setup.

How would I turn this idea into something testable?

You would first have to make "fast" measurable — a range, a volatility multiple or a move-per-bar rule — then define the level and test whether late entries into it underperform. Strategy Decoder catalogues strategy concepts from video sources so you can evaluate and test them on TradingView.

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