Your level holds one week and fails the next, and you’ve probably blamed yourself for it.
The AFM Research Lab tested the textbook support and resistance entry across 3,500 trades, 28 pairs and ten years of data. With spread included, it lost money slowly for a whole decade. The problem isn’t the concept. It’s your stop, because every other trader puts theirs in the same obvious spot. Price goes there first to clear them out. The version that held up makes three changes. You only count levels that have mattered across the last 60 bars. Your stop sits one full ATR beyond the structure, and your target is 5R. That drops the win rate to 32 percent, yet it still beats the textbook version. How? One winner pays for five losers. You’ll also find out which pairs this works on and which ones to leave alone. Stay to the end, because even the winning version carries a drawdown you need to see before you trade it.
