Rejection Block

What is a Rejection Block?

A rejection block is the ICT array built from a wick rather than a candle body. When a swing high forms on a long upper wick, typically as the stops resting above an old high get taken, the span from the top of the candle's body to the extreme of the wick is marked as a bearish rejection block. The bullish version mirrors it: a swing low with a long lower wick, marked from the bottom of the body down to the low.

The read is that the wick is where late participants were filled at the worst prices and immediately stranded; if price trades back into that span, those levels may be defended: resistance inside a bearish rejection block, support inside a bullish one. One naming caution: the vacuum block is not a synonym; in ICT vocabulary that name refers to a separate, gap-based array, not a wick zone.

How traders use it

• As an entry refinement after a sweep: once a liquidity sweep of an old high or low is in, entries are staged inside the wick zone on the return, with the stop just beyond the extreme. The wick gives a tighter band, and a tighter invalidation, than a full-candle zone.
• As a target near old extremes: rather than demanding the exact old high or low trade, profit objectives are trimmed to the near edge of the prior extreme's wick, on the view that a reaction can arrive before the precise level prints.
• As a wick-based cousin of the order block — the same defended-zone logic with different anatomy: the order block uses the body of the last opposite candle at a move's origin, the rejection block uses the wick at a rejected extreme, and some traders use it to tighten entries where a full order block would be too broad.