Dan demystifies one of the most misunderstood areas of technical analysis: support and resistance. Rather than treating these levels as “magic lines on a chart,” Dan explains the market mechanics behind them—how real buy and sell orders, supply and demand, and human decision-making actually move prices. 

Key Topics

Why support and resistance are commonly misunderstood

Technical analysis as a map of human behavior (price, not value)

The basics of market mechanics: bids, asks and order size

How supply and demand move prices tick-by-tick

How horizontal support and resistance levels are created

Why price levels hold—and the three main reasons they break

Moving averages (SMA/EMA) as dynamic support and resistance

Why the 200-day moving average matters to institutions

“Death cross” and “golden cross” and what they signal

Applying support/resistance to wheel strike selection for skate trades

Key Takeaways

Support and resistance aren’t magic. They reflect real buying and selling pressure created by market participants.

Technical analysis explains price behavior, not valuation. It tracks what price and volume did—and how traders reacted.

Prices move through order flow. Buyers absorb offers to push price up; sellers take out bids to push price down.

Support/resistance can fail for predictable reasons. Levels break when supply/demand overwhelms the other side, participants finish their trades or new information changes valuation inputs.

Moving averages can become self-reinforcing levels. Long-term averages like the 200-day influence institutional decisions and can behave like support or resistance.

Wheel traders can use these levels to improve skate trades. Support can inform cash-secured put strikes; resistance can inform covered call strikes.

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