How to judge strength of support and resistance levels

I want to ask what makes a support minor support and same is minor resistance


I am a day trader and i find support and resistance on 4hour Time frame and then trade on the 15mint chart please pin point me if i am doing it wrong and please also provide with suggestions what should i do as i am new.


So the main question is that
1. how to know that a support or resistance is minor.
2. how to know that instrument will hold its support or resistance.

By having an idea as to how they will may be used by market participants. Limit orders as do Stop orders offer options for others to trade as they supply liquidity to others.

You could try and gauge the strength and weakness from a technical perspective by observing the impact on price as these zones are hit. But this is hard as you are witnessing the game in hindsight and so behind the curve before you even play.

Another way is by trying to gauge a medium to long term sentiment or bias, you can anticipate short term noise against that sentiment being faded by the market and so get in ahead or ON the curve. I've tried both ways, the first (Technical) is tedious and lazy, the second is quite subjective but that's how you trade like a boss.

well how is to get to know the Strength of a trend with MACD or ADX like its getting weak or candles?

um... the high and low of a weekly bar will be stronger than the high and low of a daily bar and that will be stronger than the high and low of a h4 bar
keep it simple, s/r is simple but people overcomplicate it... and everything else...


so if daily is trending down and closing below daily s/r... all you need to do is watch the next weekly s/r... If you then want to know if it will hold? see what daily does at it, close under it or bounce and close up off it...

That is really all you need to do for any instrument and any tf....

Recent s/r is always more significant too... s/r points from way back in time should not be given more weight than the current levels...

a visual representation of monthly s/r stopping a weekly move

There is no hard and fast rule to identify support and resistance.
Personally, I do not differentiations to identify 'minor' support and resistance. Quite simply, in an uptrend, if price breaks resistance, that resistance has now turned support. Conversely, in a downtrend, if price breaks support, that support has now turned resistance. A range is identified if price respected a level at least twice.

Note that you can never be certain whether a support or resistance will hold. If you think about it, they will have to break sometimes, or else there wouldn't be any market. Just know that the higher time frame will allow you to identify key support and resistance as the chart contains less 'noise'.

Agree with this. Also higher time frame levels are usually where the new trend begins.

thanks very well explained this high low thing so for a day trader high of 1 hour chart would be good enough to do trades on 5 mint chart right?

To define the operational support and resistance, you need to find them on large graphs - a week - a month, they are really working. But the question is that you are the levels of support and resistance? After all, for example where the resistance is bought, not sold, and is also related to the support - everything is sold. Throw away the head of the zones, the market suschestvet just supply and demand, and if the level of work, it is said that there is someone hard sells or buys. The main thing - the prism through which you see what you mean by this.

yes very much so... if you only traded M5 at daily s/r (recent daily high/lows) you would do very nicely indeed... you're welcome to have a look at my trades on my trade explorer.

Also this will be the edge that makes the traditional entry techniques go from breaking even to being profitable, so bollinger bands, ma's, fibs etc etc will all be far more effective if combined with these levels.

Well for a 1 hour time frame i should be looking at the recent High/Low that it made in a trending move right? and then i shud b moving to 5 mint chart after knowing the trend or what should be the series of looking on multiple time frames

Hello everybody.

I am new here. Signed up today (but I read the forum for quite a long time). New to forex also, I started learning just a few month ago.

As my major actual problem is supports and resistances, I thought it would be a good idea to write my first post in this thread.

I have a lot of question about SR but will stay on the 3 big ones I could not find any satisfying answer to (maybe today:

1. On which timeframe should I draw my SR levels.

I heard many time: "The higher the best".

First I tried to draw them on monthly chart. There were a few and probably very strong but when I came back to the hourly chart which I trade from, they were so far away from actual price that I could have waited several years before finding one on my way. After that I tried the weekly and daily chart. Desperate I then tried to draw them directly on the hourly chart and there were so many that I could no more see the prices under the lines.
I am still not sure where to draw them. Any helpful advice ?

2. How many should I draw or how do I know which is important.

I found a lot of information about the good ways to identify them. Price must have bouced from it several times or been held under or over for some times. If I take on that rules I can draw a line on my hour chart nearly every 20 pips and what a mess I have.
Is there a way to know which to take and which to leave. A sort of filter that could be used by a blind beginner like me ?

3. How far in the past should I go to find or control them.

Some say 5 or 6 months, some say as far as data are provided, some say draw them on visible part of the chart and then go back only to confirm them without adding any.
Some pair are flying or sinking at level they had not reached for quite a long time and it is difficult to draw anything based on actual data. So once more which is the good way ?


The method I chose to apply to my trades is based on price action and support and resistance levels. Thus they are very important for me and it is really frustrating to draw them again and again without being sure I am doing it the right way. Please tell me more about your way to do it, it will be a great help for me.