# Support and Resistance

*Trading & Technical Analysis — Finicade finance glossary*

Support is a price level where buying has repeatedly stopped a fall; resistance is where selling has stopped a rise. The mechanism is partly reflexive: enough participants watch the same levels that orders cluster there, making them self-reinforcing. Once broken, a resistance level is conventionally expected to act as support, which is the most-used idea in all of charting.

**Also known as:** support level, resistance level, key level

**Related terms:** [Breakout](https://finicade.com/glossary/breakout), [Trend Line](https://finicade.com/glossary/trend-line), [Technical Analysis](https://finicade.com/glossary/technical-analysis), [Pullback](https://finicade.com/glossary/pullback), [Chart Patterns](https://finicade.com/glossary/chart-patterns)

Source: https://finicade.com/glossary/support-and-resistance