When a level breaks and holds, price frequently pulls back to retest the broken level from the other side — old resistance becomes support, old support becomes resistance. That retest is a higher-quality, lower-risk entry than chasing the initial break, because you buy the pullback with a tight, logical stop.

The setup

A level (a range high, a wall, prior-day high) breaks on a genuine momentum ignition and holds — price accepts the new territory. Then it pulls back toward the level. You're watching for that old barrier to now act as a floor (on an upside break): sellers who defended it are gone, and it flips to support.

Entry, target, stop

Entry: the hold of the retest — a bounce/rejection off the flipped level confirming it's now support (buy calls on an upside break's retest). It's a pullback entry anchored to a specific level. Target: the breakout's measured move or the next level up. Stop: back through the level — if the “support” fails and price re-enters the old range, the breakout was fake (a failed breakout).

A broken level that holds on the retest is confirmed. The flip from resistance to support is your entry and your stop in one place.

When to use it

The retest is strongest after a real ignition in a supportive regime — a negative-gamma break that's likely to run, or a positive-gamma break that migrated a wall. Not every breakout retests; if price runs and never pulls back, there was no entry — that's fine, you skip it rather than chase. Require the hold; a retest that slices straight back through is the failed-breakout fade instead.