The Best Support and Resistance Trading Strategy — Transcript
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- 0:00Most traders lose money in the markets
- 0:02because they don't understand one thing.
- 0:04And that one thing is super super
- 0:07simple, but it has a touch of complexity
- 0:10that you don't fully understand yet. And
- 0:13that one thing is resistance and
- 0:16support. In this video, I'm going to
- 0:18explain it in the most easy to
- 0:20understand terms, and it will unlock
- 0:23everything in your brain about day
- 0:25trading. Everybody draws these lines on
- 0:27charts and hopes that price bounces off
- 0:29of them. But let me ask you this
- 0:31question. If support is so strong, why
- 0:34does it break all the time? If
- 0:36resistance is so powerful, why do fake
- 0:38outs just completely destroy your
- 0:40account? It's not your fault. It's just
- 0:43bad education. You didn't create the
- 0:45foundation that you needed. I promise
- 0:48you, by the end of this video, you will
- 0:50never look at price action the same
- 0:52again. Let's break this down in plain
- 0:54simple English. Support is like the
- 0:58floor. Resistance is like the ceiling.
- 1:02Price bounces between them up and down.
- 1:06It's not magic. It's not random. It's
- 1:09not just lines. Now, let's dive deeper.
- 1:12Support is where a lot of people in the
- 1:14past have bought. So when price comes
- 1:18back to that spot, buyers step in again.
- 1:22Resistance is where a lot of people
- 1:24sold. So when price gets near that
- 1:27again, sellers try to stop it. It's just
- 1:30people remembering the pain or profit
- 1:33and reacting. Now let's get into why
- 1:36resistance turns into support and vice
- 1:39versa. Okay, so let's say you have
- 1:41resistance. Price hits this level and
- 1:44drops. Then one day, boom, price breaks
- 1:48through it. Guess what happens next? As
- 1:51the price comes back down after breaking
- 1:53out, it becomes support. Why? Because
- 1:58people who missed the move originally
- 2:01when it broke out, now they want in. And
- 2:04people who sold there are now stuck and
- 2:08want out. And smart traders, they wait
- 2:11for a retest to that level and buy. This
- 2:15is called a flip. And this flipping of
- 2:18levels is how market structure is born.
- 2:21Most people treat support and resistance
- 2:23like exact prices. Like I'll buy at
- 2:27exactly 1.1023.
- 2:29But price doesn't care about your
- 2:31number. Support and resistance are
- 2:34zones, not lines. They only matter if
- 2:38lots of people care about that zone. If
- 2:41no one cares, price slices through it
- 2:44like it's not even there. And if you try
- 2:47to trade every support bounce or every
- 2:49resistance touch, you will lose. So
- 2:52here's the rule. Don't trade the level.
- 2:55Trade the reaction at the level. Now,
- 2:58this is how to actually use support and
- 3:01resistance properly. And I'm going to
- 3:03give you a simple three-step method.
- 3:06Step one, look at where the price has
- 3:09bounced or dropped from before. These
- 3:12are zones of interest. Mark them with a
- 3:15box, not a line. Step two, wait for the
- 3:19price to come back to that zone. Step
- 3:22three, watch how it reacts. If price
- 3:27stalls, wicks, forms a big candle,
- 3:31buyers and sellers might be stepping in.
- 3:33If it breaks through with power, that
- 3:37level might flip sides. Don't guess. Let
- 3:41the market show you what it wants to do,
- 3:43then react. And if you're still
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- 4:14Now the flipping of these support and
- 4:16resistance zones is known as market
- 4:20structure. Every time a level flips from
- 4:23resistance to support, it builds
- 4:26structure. That's how trends form.
- 4:30higher highs and higher lows and lower
- 4:34lows and lower highs. It's not
- 4:36complicated. It's just price breaking
- 4:39one level, flipping it, then doing it
- 4:42again. And every flip zone gives you
- 4:45another place to trade from with
- 4:47confidence. Support and resistance has
- 4:51100 names, but it's all the same. Some
- 4:54people call it support and resistance.
- 4:56Other people call it supply and demand.
- 4:59Some people say market structure and
- 5:02others say order blocks, but it's all
- 5:05the same. It's just price reacting to
- 5:07places where people care. The name
- 5:10doesn't matter. The reaction does. So,
- 5:13don't get lost in terms. Focus on how
- 5:16price behaves. Now, one of the massive
- 5:19unlocks that I discovered while learning
- 5:21how to trade was what volume tells you
- 5:24when price breaks a level. Hopefully
- 5:27from my explanation, you completely
- 5:29understand that price reacts at support
- 5:32and resistance. But how do you know if a
- 5:34breakout is going to be real or just a
- 5:36fake out? That's where volume helps.
- 5:40Volume is like the lie detector test for
- 5:42candles. If price breaks through a level
- 5:45and volume spikes up, that means a lot
- 5:48of people are behind that move. It's not
- 5:50just a little push, it's real momentum.
- 5:53But if price breaks a level and volume
- 5:56is low or falling, that's a red flag.
- 5:59It's like a trap. Here's a simple rule
- 6:01to follow. A strong breakout means
- 6:05strong volume and weak volume means be
- 6:09careful. Support and resistance is one
- 6:11of the first things that most traders
- 6:13learn when they get started. But
- 6:15unfortunately, a lot of people learn it
- 6:17wrong or they have the incorrect
- 6:19understanding of why and how all of
- 6:21these areas work. Support and resistance
- 6:24is not magic. It's just memory. Being
- 6:27able to look left and see what price has
- 6:30done and looking into the memory of the
- 6:33price, you will be able to see and react
- 6:36to how price reacts at these levels.
- 6:39Master this and your trades won't feel
- 6:42random anymore. I hope this video helped
- 6:44you guys out and if you have questions
- 6:46that you want answered in a video
- 6:47response, put them in the comment
- 6:49section down below. Thanks so much for
- 6:51watching and we'll see you in the next
- 6:52one.
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