Support and Resistance Strategy

Learn a simple price action trading strategy based on identifying support and resistance levels. Wait for price reaction and trade the breakout.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Support & Resistance

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Horizontal Lines
  • Trend Lines

Source video

Decoded from: 16 Years of Trading With One Simple Strategy #shorts #investing by Brando Trades — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to strategy
  • 0:04 - Core strategy: support and resistance
  • 0:08 - Entry condition: wait for price to come to important level
  • 0:10 - Entry condition: watch how it reacts
  • 0:11 - Entry condition: trade the break
  • 0:13 - No fancy indicators
  • 0:15 - Tools: horizontal lines and trend lines
  • 0:17 - Rationale: money moves when level breaks

Strategy overview

Support and resistance trades the idea that price remembers certain levels and behaves differently when it returns to them. What makes this entry unusual is not the method but the container: the whole thing is delivered as a Short, and the marker record runs out at thirteen seconds. Brando Trades is not compressing a strategy into a Short — the Short is the strategy, start to finish, with the title's "16 Years" doing the work that a chart walkthrough would otherwise do.

Inside that runtime the actual method occupies three seconds. The markers land at 0:08, 0:10 and 0:11, and their verbs move from passive to active: wait for price to reach a level, watch how it reacts, then trade the break. Two of the three beats are waiting. The ordering is the interesting part — the reaction is inspected *before* the break, which means the break is the last of three gates rather than the trigger that starts the sequence. What the record does not settle is what breaks: the level itself, or the structure formed by the reaction to it. Those are different trades, and thirteen seconds does not separate them.

The final beat is a negation — "no fancy indicators" — and the credited toolkit agrees with it, listing horizontal lines and trend lines, which are drawing tools rather than calculated ones. Nothing in the record fixes a timeframe, an instrument, or a definition of "important" for the level, and no rules were extracted from this video; the sixteen-year figure is the channel's own account of its experience, not a measured result. This page covers the concept and what the source states, not a rule set.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the support and resistance strategy described in this video?

The video presents it as a three-step sequence: wait for price to reach an important level, watch how price reacts there, then trade the break. It is described as a price-action method using drawn levels rather than calculated indicators.

Why does the video end on "no fancy indicators"?

The closing beat defines the method by subtraction — what it does not use. The credited toolkit matches that framing: horizontal lines and trend lines are drawing tools, marked by hand on the chart, not indicators computed from price.

What timeframe and market does this strategy use?

Neither is stated. The source is a thirteen-second Short and no timeframe, instrument, or session context was extracted from it, so any application would have to be defined by the trader.

Does "16 years" mean the strategy is reliable?

That figure is the channel's own description of its trading experience, not a measured result for this setup, and no performance data accompanies it. Any level-based approach is worth defining precisely and testing on your own historical data before risking capital — Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can evaluate them on TradingView.

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