Support is a price area where buying has stopped declines before. Resistance is where selling has stopped rallies. They work because traders remember those prices: people who missed the last bounce wait there, and people who bought the top want to get out at breakeven.
Draw them as zones, not thin lines. Price rarely turns at the exact same tick.
How to draw a good zone
- Start on a higher timeframe (4h or daily).
- Find at least two clear reactions at the same area.
- Draw from the wicks to the bodies of those reactions. That's your zone.
- The more reactions and the bigger the move away, the stronger the zone.
Two ways to trade it
Price reaches support in an uptrend, prints a rejection candle (long lower wick or bullish engulfing). Enter on the close; stop below the zone.
Price closes strongly through resistance, comes back to retest it from above, and holds. Enter on the hold; stop below the zone.
The next opposing zone. Skip the trade if that's less than 1.5× your risk away.
Common mistakes
- Drawing 15 lines until something "works". Keep the 3–5 that matter.
- Buying support in a downtrend. Zones work best with structure.
- Putting the stop exactly at the line, where everyone else's stop is.
Drill
Use the free Zone drawing tool to mark 3 zones before starting a session, then trade only bounces and flips at those zones for 20 trades. Premium members can compare with the auto Support & Resistance Zones indicator.