Support and ResistanceSupport and resistance are important technical levels for a stock price. Support describes a price level that the stock tried to cross below, but ultimately stayed above. Resistance describes a price level that the stock tried to cross above, but could not. The bare minimum requirement to draw a support line or a resistance line is that the stock must spend a significant amount of time or volume at the price level. Specific types of support and resistance lines can be drawn based on additional chart patterns. Trade-Ideas reports alerts labeled as "support" or "resistance" based on the simplest definition of support and resistance. The stock price must trade a sufficient amount of volume at or near the price level, and very little if any volume on the wrong side of the price level. Trade ideas also reports some alerts based on more specific types of support and resistance. These are always labeled with more specific names, like "channel breakdown".
Alert Types
We offer the following alert types which are related to this topic.
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| Time (NY) |
Symbol |
Message |
 | Jul 25th, 11:48:27 AM | BQE.CAT | New High: +0.01. Next resistance 3.28 from 7/22/2008. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:27 AM | CEP | New Low: -0.06. Next support 18.01 from 7/24/2008. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:16 AM | ARTG | Crossed daily highs resistance. Next resistance 3.75 from 6/11/2008. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:47:55 AM | ADJ.UN.CAT | Crossed daily lows support. Next support 17.60 from 7/23/2008. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:00 AM | MFL.CAT | Crossed above resistance, 10.027, confirmed by volume. Time: 1 day 23 hours. Volume: 417,220. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:46:47 AM | AMED | Crossed below support, 61.677, confirmed by volume. Time: 2 days 23 hours. Volume: 1,789,568. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:46:31 AM | RUS.CAT | Channel breakout from $26.60-26.60, 18 minutes 14 seconds. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:47:34 AM | SYKE | Channel breakdown from $17.97-18.00, 1 hour 41 minutes. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:15 AM | GDI | Channel breakout from $44.23-44.76, 2 hours 3 minutes. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:01 AM | OPC.CAT | Channel breakdown from $19.12-19.15, 12 minutes 47 seconds. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:02 AM | SMWF | Rectangle bottom. Prices: 0.0013, 0.0012, 0.0013, 0.0012, 0.0013, 0.0012. Started 54 minutes 50 seconds ago. Last turn Less than 1 second ago. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:47:43 AM | SMWF | Rectangle top. Prices: 0.0013, 0.0012, 0.0013, 0.0012, 0.0013. Started 54 minutes 31 seconds ago. Last turn Less than 1 second ago. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:48:08 AM | CTCM | Quadruple bottom. Prices: 21.374, 21.453, 21.47, 21.42. Started 3 days 2 hours ago. Last turn 13 minutes 11 seconds ago. | more |  | Jul 25th, 11:47:43 AM | SMWF | 5 top. Prices: 0.0013, 0.0013, 0.0013, 0.0013, 0.0013. Started 2 hours 14 minutes ago. Last turn Less than 1 second ago. | more |
See Also
Alert,
Channel Breakdown,
Channel Breakout,
Technical Analysis,
Technical Breakdown,
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