Learn Price delivery Breaker Block
Breaker Block
A failed order block after a stop-run: the candles that powered the fake-out flip into support/resistance.
A bullish breaker forms when price sweeps sell-side liquidity below an old low (a lower low that runs stops), then reverses with displacement and body-closes above the prior high — a market structure shift.
The down-close candles that formed that failed low are the breaker: on the way back down, they now act as support instead of resistance, because the traders trapped in the fake-out must exit through them.
The critical discriminator versus a mitigation block is the sweep — a breaker REQUIRES that liquidity was taken before the reversal. This ICT concept is one of the strongest "flip zones" in the toolkit.
How to trade it
- Enter on the first retest of the breaker zone from the new side, stop beyond the far edge.
- Demand the full sequence: sweep, then displacement, then body close through the opposing swing — skip any zone missing a step.
- Grade it higher when the retest lands in discount (for longs) and inside a kill zone.
Pitfalls
- Calling any violated order block a breaker — without the liquidity sweep it is a mitigation block, a weaker animal.
- Trading the second or third retest as if it were the first — each touch consumes the zone’s orders.
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