Break Levels and Hold Levels: How to Mark Support and Resistance on ES

How to mark support and resistance on ES futures the objective way… bodies, wicks, and the two-candle rule that makes your levels match George's.

From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library… 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018.

Break levels and hold levels are how George marks support and resistance on the chart. A break level is a swing high or swing low, marked and played on the first touch. A hold level is a spot where price has already proven it will bounce, so you enter with high certainty. Both come from one objective rule that any trained trader can follow to the same line.

This page gathers George's mechanical key level tutorial from hundreds of hours of live ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures sessions… where to draw the line, when a level is legit, why bodies and wicks matter, and why the first-touch break level is the number-one trade on the board.

“"On the weekly chart we also want to start marking the break levels. Let's just mark break levels. Now let's put in some hold levels. This one is now a hold level because we have the two candle clearance that we talk about."”

— George, live session, Dec 3, 2022

ES futures Battle Plan chart from George’s published record

From George’s published record: Micros Trade Plan #320 — a 20+-point move, mapped in advance.

What a Break Level Really Is

Strip away the jargon. A break level is nothing more than a marked swing high or a marked swing low. Peaks and valleys. That's the whole idea, and it makes them the easiest thing on the chart to spot and trade.

How do you play it? First touch. You go long the first time price returns to a break level low, short the first time it returns to a break level high. George says it plainly… "first touch long, first touch short." First touch bounces are what the group plays.

“"Break levels are nothing more than swing highs and swing lows. Marked a swing high, marked a swing low."”

— George, live session, Nov 15, 2022

George has taught this in 50+ recorded sessions… and every claim in the full lesson links to the recording it came from. The full lesson covers far more than fits here.

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