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resistance line is a straight line on a graph that shows the highest price at which a certain asset, like a stock or a currency, has consistently struggled to rise above. It acts as a barrier, preventing the price from moving above it and continuing to increase.
Full definition
When a stock trades near its resistance level, you can sell your position, by keeping
resistance line as stop loss.
You can use support as well as
resistance lines for assistance to assess where the trend direction changes.
The intraday high of ADA on Monday failed to touch the first major
resistance line at $ 0.18641.
Often times, support and resistance are more «zones» than exact «levels», sometimes you will have a key level that is indeed an exact level, but more often than not we are going to be drawing our support and
resistance lines midway through bar tails or even through the body of a bar sometimes.
Yesterday, Emerson Electric (EMR)-- which was featured as Dave Van Knapp's Dividend Growth Stock of the Month for March 2015 — burst through its «secondary
downtrend resistance line» on solid volume.
Last Friday, bitcoin successfully broke the long -
term resistance line that marked the December downtrend - at least in log - charts.
The pennant shape is formed when the support and
resistance lines start converging towards each other over time.
Bitcoin broke out of its lengthy declining trend, rallying quickly up to the key $ 9000 - $ 9200 zone as expected, even though the momentum of the move has been relatively weak, and the coin failed to enter the zone, with the
lower resistance line halting the advance, for now.
The should line up nicely with the
previous resistance line of the uptrend channel, so it's likely that we should see plenty of buying pressure underneath.
A push above the solid
chart resistance line at last week's high would negate the pennant pattern and give the bulls fresh upside technical momentum.
The bears have gained downside technical momentum and are on the verge of producing a bearish downside «breakout» from the sideways and choppy trading range as depicted by the support and
resistance lines seen on the chart.
If price breaks above the lime
colored resistance line of the ascending triangle, an exit or take profit is advised.
It has broken above its $ 2.50
horizontal resistance line yesterday and did a re-test of the $ 2.50 again and is holding well now.
We're watching the
uptrend resistance line closely and a trailing stop would be recommended in order to maximize profits.
If the bands become narrower and track parallel for an extended time, the price will usually bounce of the upper and lower bands, which take a role of support and
resistance lines in sideways trading conditions.
However, yesterday there price action across major alt coin rallied with Monero and DASH breaking above
key resistance lines.
In some of my earlier posts, I wrote about a pennant that had been forming, denoted by the
black resistance line and the dashed gray line.
As a recap, the price broke out of this 1st March, but with the recent fall in the market, it will be looking for that
initial resistance line as support, tracking just above $ 1000.
Bitcoin is currently on a two - day run of gains, but likely to be stopped in its streak, if it can not break through the previously
mentioned resistance line.
From the longer - term perspective, ETC / USD continues moving within the downside channel with the
critical resistance line now at $ 16.00.
CADJPY is testing our first resistance at 84.60 (horizontal overlap resistance, 61.8 % Fibonacci retracement, 100 % Fibonacci extension) which coincides with our short term
descending resistance line.
Often times, support and resistance are more «zones» than exact «levels», sometimes you will have a key level that is indeed an exact level, but more often than not we are going to be drawing our support and
resistance lines midway through bar tails or even through the body of a bar sometimes.
Within the context of this
downtrend resistance line, price has made several breakdowns of both short - term uptrend support lines and horizontal support...
It means the nature of the trend has changed and with the DOW specifically it means the trend line has changed polarity and now acts as
a resistance line.
Resistance lines are higher price levels that are like ceilings.
The Wedge pattern looks just like it sounds — a wedge formed by two lines called the support and
resistance lines.
A rising wedge is a sign that the price of a stock is likely to fall and is identified by the gap between the support and
resistance lines closing over time; a falling wedge indicates the opposite, or that a stock's price could rise.
The tip, or peak, is
the resistance line; the very beginning of the first upward movement is the support line.