Breakout trading: how do you filter false breaks?

Breakouts promise the start of a move and deliver false breaks most of the time. The difference between profitable and unprofitable breakout trading is entirely in the filters: volume context, session, retests and how you treat the failed break.

What's your filter stack?

• the conditions a level needs before you'll trade its break
• how you handle the classic stop-hunt-and-reverse
• whether you enter on the break or wait for the retest

The support and resistance guide sets the foundation.