When a prior high stops being resistance
How acceptance through a level changes your map — and why retests deserve their own rules.
A prior high is not permanent furniture. Once price spends time beyond it with overlapping closes, that line often flips role. In class we ask three questions before we erase or invert a level:
- Did closes cluster beyond the zone, or was it a single spike?
- Was volume or range expansion present on the break (context, not a hard rule)?
- On the first retest, did buyers or sellers defend the new side?
If the retest fails and price falls back through, we treat the event as a failed break and keep the old resistance until proven otherwise. Students who skip the retest step tend to redraw the whole chart after every impulsive candle.
Bring a recent break from your own market to the next practice lab and we will mark the acceptance window together.