Traders who treat support and resistance as exact prices instead of zones keep getting stopped out right before the bounce — a lesson that matters for anyone trading Bitcoin or stocks.

• Support and resistance are zones, not single prices: draw them from a candle's wick extreme to its close, ideally on daily or weekly charts.
• These zones exist because people are stuck there — trapped buyers selling at break-even create ceilings, and regretful dip-buyers with resting orders create floors.
• A level is only broken when a candle *closes* beyond the zone; a wick poking through and snapping back is a stop-loss hunt, not a break.
• Contrary to common advice, a level gets weaker the more it is tested, since each touch eats through the resting orders — by the third test or more, a break is likely.
• Once broken, old support becomes new resistance and vice versa, so the smart move is to skip chasing the breakout and wait for the retest of the flipped zone.

Outlook: Round numbers like $100,000 on Bitcoin and $5,000 on gold will keep acting as psychological magnets where prices stall or turn, usually with a slight overshoot or undershoot rather than an exact hit.