Analysis
Support and Resistance as Zones, Not Thin Lines
Price never respects a single pixel. It reacts to a band. If your resistance is a 1px line at 68,420 on BTCUSD, half your wicks will pierce it and you will call the level 'broken' when it never was. Frame the band the wicks actually cluster in and most of that noise disappears.
Draw the band with the Rectangle
- Grab the Rectangle from the left toolbar — no default hotkey, so pin it to your favorites bar.
- Anchor the top at the highest wick of the cluster, the bottom at the candle bodies. That gap is your zone.
- On EURUSD or ES the band runs 10-20 ticks; on BTCUSD a few hundred dollars. That is fine — a zone is supposed to have thickness.
Pull levels from the top down
Open the 1W first, then 1D, and mark 3-4 zones before you touch the 1h. Higher-timeframe levels are the ones size actually defends; a level you invent on the 5m evaporates by lunch. For the full routine, read multi-timeframe analysis and keep the daily zones as a fixed layer.
The flip and the alert
When price closes through resistance and comes back to it, that old ceiling acts as a floor. Same rectangle, new role — drag it, don't delete it. Set the alert on the near edge of the zone, not the mid-price: you want the warning as price enters the band, not after it has reacted. Pair zones with trendlines and channels for the diagonal context horizontals miss.