Advanced tier
Breaker or Mitigation
Breaker or Mitigation shows an order block that price has come back to test. You call what became of it: a breaker, a mitigation block, or neither because it has not failed. When it failed, you mark its zone. It teaches two questions: did a candle close beyond the far side, and was the old extreme taken first?
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What it teaches
What a failed order block becomes, by rule.
- A block fails only on a close beyond its far side. A wick that closes back is a test, not a failure.
- A breaker is a failed block where the run first took the old high or low. A mitigation block failed without taking it.
- When neither label applies and the honest answer is "neither".
- More in breaker and mitigation blocks.
How a round plays
- A chart shows an order block and price returning to it. Early levels box the block, and later you find it yourself.
- Question 1: did a candle close beyond the far side of the block, its low if bullish or its high if bearish? If only wicks went through, it has not failed: neither.
- Question 2, when it failed: before that close, did price trade beyond the old extreme that stood before the block? Yes is a breaker. No is a mitigation block.
- When it failed and your call was right, mark the zone: tap wick tips to set the top and bottom lines on the block candle, high to low.
- The Lens then prints the rest of the chart. A run is eight charts and takes about four minutes.
How it is graded
The rule here: an order block has failed when a later candle closes beyond its far side. It is a breaker if price traded beyond the old extreme before that close, and a mitigation block if it stopped short. The call is graded first, then the zone against the full high and low of the block candle.
The honest note
These are the least standardised terms in the vocabulary, and teachers define them differently. The game uses one stated definition so that it can be graded.