Zones, not lines

The market does not respect a single price

Beginners draw support and resistance as a perfect horizontal line at one exact price. Then they watch in frustration as price stops two dollars short, or overshoots by ten, and their "level" looks broken when it was actually respected. The fix is a mindset shift: a level is not a price, it is a zone — a band where reactions cluster.

Why a band, not a line

Real reactions happen across a small range, not one tick, because thousands of traders place their orders at slightly different prices, and wicks routinely punch through a level before price snaps back. A zone absorbs that messiness. You draw it from the bodies-and-wicks region where price repeatedly turned, usually a band a fraction of a percent wide on a clean level, wider on a noisy one.

• A level is a zone (a price band), not an exact line.
• Draw the band to contain the cluster of reactions — the wicks and bodies that turned price.
• A wick poking through the zone is NOT a break. Only a body close clearly beyond it counts.
• The more times a zone is tested and holds, the more significant it is — until it finally breaks.