Breakouts with Tests & Retests

Breakouts with Tests & Retests turns swing points into areas of interest and then narrates every interaction: price testing the area, breaking out through it, or returning to retest it from the other side. Bullish swing areas draw in green, bearish in red, and every judgment runs on opens and closes (wicks are deliberately ignored), so labels reflect committed movement rather than probes.

How to Trade the Breakouts with Tests & Retests?

• Test (solid triangle): a bar opens inside the area and closes beyond it in the direction of the swing's bias. The level is doing its job.
• Breakout (color flip): a close through the area against its bias changes the zone's color, flagging the break the moment it completes.
• Retest (hollow triangle): after a breakout, a bar opening inside the area and closing outside in the breakout's direction confirms the flip, the classic continuation cue.

Width drives behavior: a higher Multiple lets price consolidate inside the area for longer, which tends to produce more test indications, while a longer-lived area offers more retest chances. Display options isolate bullish or bearish patterns when you only want one side of the market.

Breakouts with Tests & Retests Settings

• Display: both pattern types together, or exclusively bullish or bearish.
• Multiple: scales the width of each swing area.
• Maximum Bars: how long an area may go without a test or retest before it stops extending.
• Display Test/Retest Labels and Minimum Bars: show every label, or only the latest after a set bar gap.
• Set Back To Last Retest: pulls an expired area's right edge back to the last visible retest.
• Swings: the wick height required on either side of a candidate swing point, plus colors and label sizing under Style.

Frequently Asked Questions

What separates a test from a retest?

Why do the labels ignore wicks?

Is Breakouts with Tests & Retests free?