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I Used This Support & Resistance Strategy for 15 Years

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Core idea: Support and resistance aren’t random lines; they mark price “memory”—areas where institutional flows and human positioning historically caused buyers/sellers to react. Understanding these levels is presented as a way to find higher-probability entries/exits with defined risk.

The emphasis throughout is on structure, confirmation, and risk management—not precision at a single exact price.

Key concepts (as described)

  • Support (area): where buyers historically stepped in.
  • Resistance (area): where sellers historically stepped in.
  • Levels are ranges, not exact prices, because being too precise can cause missed entries/exits.
  • Levels tend to persist due to:
    1. Institutional liquidity (large funds need liquidity and tend to trade around major levels)
    2. Psychology (traders expect similar reactions when price revisits prior levels)
    3. Positioning (traders who missed moves re-enter when price returns)

How to draw the levels (framework implied)

  • Start on a higher timeframe first (typically daily).
  • Identify zones where price showed strong reactions, such as:
    • large sell-offs
    • large breakouts
    • major reversals
  • Mark those as primary levels.
  • Drop to smaller timeframes to refine entry/exit timing.
  • Prefer the strongest levels, which share three traits:
    • caused a large prior reaction (violent move away)
    • were tested multiple times
    • appear on higher time frames (daily/weekly > intraday)

Market example: S&P 500 (SPX/SPY) level logic

Instruments mentioned

  • SPX (S&P 500 index)
  • SPY (S&P 500 ETF)
  • Options (no specific strike prices given)

Macro/event context mentioned

  • Tariffs: major sell-off catalyst; described as “printed a major top”
  • Trump announced delay in tariffs: market bottomed afterward
  • Fed meeting / Fed cuts more rates: bullish narrative catalyst
  • QT (Quantitative Tightening): referenced as historical context near a 2021 top

Key price levels cited (approximate)

  • Major top (2025): 6150
  • Major bottom (2025, after tariff delay): 4800
  • Round-number entry zone: 5000 (described as meaningful)
  • Higher-low / 2024 bottom area (next entry support): aligned with April 17 (exact number not stated)
  • Current high / recent top area: near 7000
  • Current price: around 6740
  • Key support for bulls (“line in the sand,” 2026): 6520
  • If 6520 fails → potential retest: 6100
  • Range described: roughly 7000–6500

If/then structure around 7000

  • If SPX breaks above 7000, the expectation is another large upside run, referencing prior behavior:
    • prior breakout context: “major top was 6100” and there was an “about 850 point move”
    • forward expectation: 700 to 1000 point run “at some point this year” (timeline: “this year,” not a specific date)

Options timing example (implied)

  • Example idea: buying S&P calls around a level like 5000
  • After about 1 month (example references April 2nd → May 4th/May 5th), the move is described as about 700 points
  • This is framed as rare, and used to illustrate waiting for:
    • major headlines, and
    • major levels before trading options

Explicit trading rules / recommendations (risk + confirmation)

Core emphasis

  • Trade structure and defined risk are treated as central.

Risk management rules tied to levels

  • Buying support: stop “slightly below” the support zone.
    • If the level breaks → the trade idea is invalid.
  • Shorting resistance: stop “slightly above” the resistance zone.
    • If the level breaks → the trade idea is invalid.

Breakouts vs rejections (both tradable with confirmation)

  • At a level, either:
    • it holds and rejects → traders may short rejection (if resistance holds)
    • it breaks and continues → traders may buy breakout (if resistance breaks)
  • Core instruction: “waiting for confirmation”—the market should prove the move first.

Position sizing / caution while in a range

  • While price remains in the 7000–6500 range:
    • sizing “cannot be huge”
  • More aggressive betting only if:
    • backtest at ~6500 holds (and narrative shifts), and
    • narrative turns bullish due to catalysts such as:
      • Fed cuts more rates
      • war in Iran ends sooner than expected
  • This implies a risk-on after breakout/backtest + macro narrative confirmation approach.

Performance / probability framing (no hard returns stated)

  • Claims are framed as probabilistic, not guaranteed:
    • “don’t guarantee anything”
    • but “improve the odds”
  • The method is said to:
    • provide structure
    • define risk
    • help consistency

Disclosures / disclaimers

  • No explicit “not financial advice” disclaimer appears in the subtitles provided.

Presenters / sources

  • Presenter: the unnamed speaker in the video (no other presenters or sources mentioned).

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