Break & Retest Strategy V2 (Clean Visuals)This strategy is built on a high-probability EMA breakout and retest model, designed for traders who want clean structure-based entries filtered by trend alignment and strong price action. It leverages:
• ✅ A 44 EMA trend filter on the 4H chart
• ✅ HTF directional bias from the Daily 44 EMA
• ✅ Breakout above the EMA followed by a wick-based retest
• ✅ Strong bullish candle confirmation (body > 50% of range)
• ✅ Dynamic stop loss using either the pivot low or a buffer below the EMA
• ✅ Fixed 1:3 Risk:Reward ratio for consistent reward targeting
• ✅ Cooldown system to prevent overtrading
• ✅ Clean, minimal visuals using smart RR boxes instead of chart clutter
This system is fully backtestable and designed with prop firm challenge criteria in mind — prioritizing risk control, clarity, and high-quality trade conditions.
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🔧 Current Development Goals (V3 Roadmap)
We’re actively refining the system to improve win rate and profit factor, while keeping drawdown low. Key upgrades in progress:
1. 📈 Liquidity Trap Filter
• Add logic to confirm a wick below recent lows (liquidity sweep) before retesting the EMA
2. 🧠 Partial Take Profits + Breakeven Logic
• TP1 at 1.5R → move SL to breakeven
• TP2 at 3R → close remaining position
3. 🔁 Trade Session Filter
• Limit entries to London & New York AM sessions to avoid false signals in low volume periods
4. 📉 Short Entry Engine
• Mirror logic for bearish break + retest setups below the EMA
5. 🔔 Live Alerts System
• Entry signal alerts for hands-free, real-time trading decisions
6. 📊 Optimizer Toolkit (future)
• Add ATR/volatility filters
• Add market structure confluence zones (HH/HL filters)
• Smart cooldown timer based on wins/losses or volatility shifts
Breakandretest
First 5-Minute Premarket High/Low Break RetestDay trading method that uses the 5 minute candle high and low but trade on the 1 minute chart.
This is a break and retest trading strategy based on the market open 5 minute high and low candle.
Additional levels would be the premarket high and low plotted in blue on the chart. It's not uncommon for the 5 minute to be near the premarket high and low zone.
The break and restest of the 5 minute white lines either to the downside or upside. Once a hammer or long wick candle forms near or touching the retest of the 5 minute line that indicates an entry point.
It's best to have another confirmation for entry such as the 13 and 100 ema cross to confirm good position and risk.
This is a repetable and solid trading strategy. The indicator was created to plot on the 1 and 5 minute charts.
Volatility Breaker Blocks [BigBeluga]The Volatility Breaker Blocks indicator identifies key market levels based on significant volatility at pivot highs and lows. It plots blocks that act as potential support and resistance zones, marked in green (support) and blue (resistance). Even after a breakout, these blocks leave behind shadow boxes that continue to impact price action. The sensitivity of block detection can be adjusted in the settings, allowing traders to customize the identification of volatility breakouts. The blocks print triangle labels (up or down) after breakouts, indicating potential areas of interest.
🔵 IDEA
The Volatility Breaker Blocks indicator is designed to highlight key areas in the market where volatility has created significant price action. These blocks, created at pivot highs and lows with increased volatility, act as potential support and resistance levels.
The idea is that even after price breaks through these blocks, the remaining shadow boxes continue to influence price movements. By focusing on volatility-driven pivot points, traders can better anticipate how price may react when it revisits these areas. The indicator also captures the natural tendency for price to retest broken resistance or support levels.
🔵 KEY FEATURES & USAGE
◉ High Volatility Breaker Blocks:
The indicator identifies areas of high volatility at pivot highs and lows, plotting blocks that represent these zones. Green blocks represent support zones (identified at pivot lows), while blue blocks represent resistance zones (identified at pivot highs).
Support:
Resistance:
◉ Shadow Blocks after Breakouts:
When price breaks through a block, the block doesn't disappear. Instead, it leaves behind a shadow box, which can still influence future price action. These shadow blocks act as secondary support or resistance levels.
If the price crosses these shadow blocks, the block stops extending, and the right edge of the box is fixed at the point where the price crosses it. This feature helps traders monitor important price levels even after the initial breakout has occurred.
◉ Triangle Labels for Breakouts:
After the price breaks through a volatility block, the indicator prints triangle labels (up or down) at the breakout points.
◉ Support and Resistance Retests:
One of the key concepts in this indicator is the retesting of broken blocks. After breaking a resistance block, price often returns to the shadow box, which then acts as support. Similarly, after breaking a support block, price tends to return to the shadow box, which becomes a resistance level. This concept of price retesting and bouncing off these levels is essential for understanding how the indicator can be used to identify potential entries and exits.
The natural tendency of price to retest broken resistance or support levels.
Additionaly indicator can display retest signals of broken support or resistance
◉ Customizable Sensitivity:
The sensitivity of volatility detection can be adjusted in the settings. A higher sensitivity captures fewer but more significant breakouts, while a lower sensitivity captures more frequent volatility breakouts. This flexibility allows traders to adapt the indicator to different trading styles and market conditions.
🔵 CUSTOMIZATION
Calculation Window: Defines the window of bars over which the breaker blocks are calculated. A larger window will capture longer-term levels, while a smaller window focuses on more recent volatility areas.
Volatility Sensitivity: Adjusts the threshold for volatility detection. Lower sensitivity captures smaller breakouts, while higher sensitivity focuses on larger, more significant moves.
Retest Signals: Display or hide retest signals of shadow boxes
Support Resistance with Breaks and RetestsThe Break and Retest indicator strives to provide a visual aid for spotting areas of continuation and pullbacks. Support and resistance levels are drawn out automatically and have sequential conditions in place to determine a breakout following an eventual retest. Additionally, there are methods in place that try and detect liquidation events and still output a retest.
Although there are options to adjust repaint settings, "potential labels" are structured in a way to detect live ongoing retest events and therefore will be the only thing in the script that will be forced to repaint.
🔳 Settings
Lookback Range: Lookback period to trigger a new support/resistance level when pivot conditions are met.
Bars Since Breakout: How many bars since breakout in order to detect a retest.
Retest Detection Limiter: Whenever a potential retest is detected, the indicator knows that a retest is about to happen. In that given situation, this input grants the ability to raise the limit on how many bars are allowed to be actively checked while a potential retest event is active. For example, if you see the potential retest label, how many bars do you want that potential retest label to be active for to eventually confirm a retest?
🔳 Repaint Options
By default, the break and retest system uses the current close value to determine a condition. (Repaints by default)
On: Allows repainting
Off - Bar Confirmation: Prevents repainting and generates alerts when the bar closes. (1 candle later)
Off - High & Low: Prevents repainting, but in return utilizes both the high and low values instead of the close which may yield a higher outcome and inaccurate results.
🔳 How it works
In the background, calculations aren't searching for the perfect retest within the zone but instead focuses its attention towards price fluctuation around the zones. This allows the indicator to yield more results than it would otherwise.
The chart below provides an example of how potential retests are established. These are updated constantly until a retest is confirmed, and deleted if not. If a potential retest is active and the next candle drops below the value when the potential retest was detected, a retest is placed..
🔳 Alerts
