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Support is a price level where buying interest tends to be strong enough to pause or reverse a falling market, acting like a floor. Resistance is a level where selling pressure tends to halt a rising market, acting like a ceiling. These zones form because traders remember past prices and react around them. They are key reference points for planning entries, exits, and stop-loss placement.

Look for price areas the market has repeatedly struggled to break below (support) or above (resistance). Mark previous swing highs and lows, round numbers, and zones where price reversed more than once. It helps to treat them as areas rather than exact lines. Checking higher timeframes reveals the most significant levels, since those tend to attract more attention and hold more reliably.

Traders often look to enter near support in an uptrend or near resistance in a downtrend, placing a stop-loss just beyond the level in case it fails. Others trade breakouts, entering when price convincingly closes through a level. Waiting for confirmation, such as a candlestick signal or a retest, reduces false starts. Because CFDs are leveraged, always define your risk before entering rather than relying on the level alone.

When price breaks through a support level, that old floor often becomes a new ceiling, and a broken resistance can become new support. This role reversal happens because traders who were positioned around the level adjust their orders once it breaks, changing where buying and selling cluster. This flip is a widely watched concept, since retests of a broken level can offer clearer, higher-probability trade setups.

Horizontal support and resistance are fixed price levels the market reacts to repeatedly. A trendline is a diagonal line drawn along rising or falling swing points to track the direction and slope of a trend. Both mark areas where price may react, but support and resistance are static, while trendlines move with the trend over time. Many traders use them together for a fuller picture.

Beginners often draw levels too precisely and expect price to reverse exactly there, when these are really zones. They may also mark too many levels, cluttering the chart, or ignore the broader trend and higher timeframes. Another common error is entering without waiting for confirmation and skipping a stop-loss. Focusing on a few significant, well-tested levels and confirming reactions usually leads to cleaner decisions.