Post of the Day: Old Support Becomes New Resistance

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Student’s Question:

I am still on not clear on how old support becomes new resistance…or vice versa. Help!




Power Course Instructor’s Response:

Take a look at the chart below. The green line is a trendline showing support which has been in place for quite some time. However, at the place on the chart where you see the black arrow pointing down, price action breaks through and several candles close below what was the old support line. That line is support no longer since price has broken through it and no longer respects that line as support.




Now, after numerous candles have closed below old support, price action comes back up to test the former support line which now represents new resistance. Price action will test the new resistance line to see if it holds.

The opposite would be true if we were in a downtrend and we had a resistance line above price action which kept being tested from below. It would represent resistance and when it was broken through by price action, it would then be new support.