Resistance
Resistance is the mirror image of support: a price area where rising prices have repeatedly tended to stall and turn back down, because selling interest keeps emerging there. This article explains why resistance forms (profit-taking, trapped buyers wanting to break even, round numbers, prior lows), the polarity principle where broken resistance becomes support, how to gauge a level's strength, and why — like support — resistance describes behaviour rather than predicting it.
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