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Technical Analysis · Lesson 1

Support and Resistance: The Evidence-Based View

The oldest idea in technical analysis — and the one most abused. We examine the statistical evidence for horizontal price levels and explain when they fail.

Author

David Chen, CFA

Peer reviewer

Somchai Wattana, CMT

13 min readPublished March 20, 2026Reviewed April 10, 2026

Support and resistance are the oldest tools in TA. They deserve statistical scrutiny.