Description
Few traders truly understand how powerful failed breakouts can be.
I’ve spent over 30 years trading, and today I’ll show you how to identify failed breakouts, understand why they happen, and use them to spot potential market reversals. The most important signal isn’t the breakout itself. It’s what happens when it fails.
This video breaks down where liquidity builds around obvious highs and lows, why price sweeps those levels to trigger stops and breakout entries, and how to tell a genuine breakout from a liquidity sweep that snaps back inside the range. You’ll learn the 4-step framework: Location, Break, Reclaim, Follow-through. How to define failure with evidence, not wicks — reclaim of the level, hold on retest, and short-term structure shift. Plus how this connects to Wyckoff springs, upthrusts, and the classic head-and-shoulders pattern, where the head is often a failed breakout.Perfect for price action traders learning support and resistance, liquidity concepts, and reversal timing on any chart.
Chapters:
0:00: Why Failed Breakouts Signal Market Reversals
0:58: How Liquidity Builds at Obvious Highs and Lows
1:39: What Liquidity Really Means in Trading Ranges
2:10: How to Tell When a Breakout Is Failing
3:12: Liquidity Sweep Explained: Break, Trigger and Reverse
4:07: Reclaim, Retest and Range: What to Actually Observe
4:47: Wyckoff Spring and Up-Thrust in Trading Ranges
5:56: Head and Shoulders as a Failed Breakout Pattern
7:02: Buying Climax, Up-Thrust and Break of Support
7:42: 4-Step Framework: Location, Break, Reclaim, Follow-Through
9:11: How to Trade Failed Breakouts With Confirmation
9:43: Backtest Rule: Study 20 Failed Breakout Examples
If You Master Failed Breakouts, You Will Master Trading by Ian Coleman | FXStreet
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