Support and Resistance Strategy

Learn a simple yet powerful price action strategy using support and resistance levels to identify trading opportunities and make informed decisions.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Support & Resistance

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Support and Resistance

Source video

Decoded from: The Best Support and Resistance Trading Strategy by The Moving Average — watch the original

Strategy overview

Support and resistance is the price-action idea that certain levels — old highs and lows, and zones where price has turned before — tend to produce a reaction when price returns to them. Almost every trader draws them; far fewer agree on what to do once price arrives. This entry points to "The Best Support and Resistance Trading Strategy" from the channel The Moving Average, a video that commits to one way of trading those levels rather than surveying the options.

That commitment is where support and resistance methods actually differ from one another. A level can be taken from wicks or from closing prices, treated as a thin line or as a zone with width, and considered valid after two touches or after five. More decisively, price arriving at a level offers two opposite trades: the bounce, which bets the level holds, and the break, which bets it fails. Any video claiming a single best approach is really claiming to have settled those questions in a particular order — and that order is what a viewer is there for.

This one is catalogued as pure price action: support and resistance is the only tool listed, with no indicator overlay to confirm or filter. That keeps it readable on any chart, and it also means the trader carries the judgement an indicator would otherwise absorb. Whichever version you take from the source video, the next step is the same — mark the levels on the market and timeframe you actually trade, and study how price behaved at them historically before putting size behind the idea.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What is support and resistance in trading?

Support and resistance are price levels or zones where the market has repeatedly stopped or reversed — support below current price, resistance above. Traders draw them from prior highs, lows and reaction areas, and use them as reference points for entries, exits and stop placement.

Should you trade the bounce off a level or the break through it?

Both are traded, and they are opposite bets on the same level: the bounce assumes the level holds, the break assumes it gives way. Most support and resistance methods distinguish themselves by which of the two they favour and what conditions they require before committing — that choice is the substance of a given strategy.

Do you need indicators to trade support and resistance?

No. Support and resistance is a price-action approach — the levels come from price history itself, not from a calculation on top of it. This strategy is catalogued with support and resistance as its only listed tool, though many traders do add confirmation elsewhere in their own process.

How can I evaluate a support and resistance strategy before trading it?

Draw the levels on the instrument and timeframe you trade, then review historical reactions at those levels and backtest the specific entry rule you plan to use. Strategy Decoder catalogues strategies like this one from video sources so you can see the concept behind them and take it to TradingView for testing.

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