Trendlines, Support and Resistance

Enhance your trading with trendlines and support/resistance zones. Learn to identify and mitigate fakeouts on Gold across multiple timeframes, from lower to mon

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Support & Resistance

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: educational
  • Timeframes: Lower time frames, 1 hour, 4 hour, Monthly, Weekly
  • Markets: Gold

Indicators used

  • Trendline
  • Support and Resistance

Source video

Decoded from: How To Stop Fakeouts With Trendlines by Tori Trades — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to fakeouts
  • 1:10 - What is a fakeout?
  • 2:00 - Why fakeouts happen
  • 2:50 - First filter: Break and Retest
  • 3:38 - Second filter: Candle Close
  • 4:30 - Third filter: Confluences (higher timeframe, time of day, key levels)
  • 6:00 - Fourth filter: Double Confirmation (trendline + S/R break)
  • 6:50 - How to respond to fakeouts

Strategy overview

Trendlines and horizontal support/resistance are the price-action trader's way of marking the levels where a market has repeatedly turned, and a break of one is normally read as the signal that the balance has shifted. This decoded entry comes at that idea from the opposite end: Tori Trades' video "How To Stop Fakeouts With Trendlines" is not about drawing better lines, it is about the moment a line breaks and the move immediately fails. The premise is that the break itself is the easy part — the hard part is telling a real break from a probe that reverses within minutes.

What gives the video its shape is that it diagnoses before it prescribes. Its chapters move from defining a fakeout, to why fakeouts occur around obvious levels at all, and only then to a stack of filters — break-and-retest, candle close, and confluence with higher timeframes, time of day and key levels. Each of those is a patience mechanism: it trades entry price and speed for evidence, which is why a lesson about trendlines ends up ranging from lower timeframes all the way up to weekly and monthly context. The line you are trading is rarely the line that decides whether the break holds.

This entry is built on the video and the underlying concept rather than a decoded rule set, so treat it as a framework rather than a system. The transferable idea is that a trendline break is a claim in need of corroboration, and that the sequence in which you demand that corroboration is itself a decision with a cost — fewer false starts, but also fewer entries at the best price. That trade-off is measurable, which makes it a good candidate for testing before it becomes a habit.

Topics

price action · trendline strategy · support resistance trading · trading strategy · gold trading strategy · swing trading · intraday trading · 1 hour strategy · 4 hour strategy · tradingview strategy · pine script · market structure · trendline fakeouts · gold price action

Frequently asked questions

What is a fakeout in trading?

A fakeout is a move that breaks a trendline, support or resistance level and then reverses back through it instead of continuing, trapping traders who entered on the break. The source video opens by defining fakeouts before addressing how to avoid them.

Why do fakeouts happen at trendlines and support/resistance levels?

Because those levels are visible to everyone, orders cluster just beyond them, and a brief push through can trigger those orders without the underlying move having any follow-through. The video dedicates an early section to why this happens before moving on to filters.

How can you filter out fakeouts on a trendline break?

The common approaches are confirmation-based: waiting for a candle to close beyond the level, waiting for price to retest the broken line before entering, and checking whether the break agrees with higher-timeframe structure, key levels and the session's time of day. The video organizes its lesson around exactly these categories of filter.

Does waiting for confirmation mean missing good moves?

Sometimes, yes — confirmation filters exchange entry price and some missed trades for a lower rate of false breaks, so the net effect depends on the market and timeframe you trade. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can evaluate the structure and test that trade-off on TradingView rather than assume it.

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