Breaker block

An order block that failed, and now works from the other side.

A breaker forms when price takes liquidity beyond a swing, then reverses hard through the order block that defended it. That failed block flips: old support becomes resistance and the other way round.

Illustration drawn by Propbook, not a real chart.

How to spot it

1
Look for a sweep of a recent low (or high) first.
2
Then a displacement through the swing that came just before the sweep: that is the shift.
3
The candles of that broken swing are the breaker: wait for price to return into them.

On a prop firm account

The sweep plus shift sequence filters many false entries. Your stop goes beyond the sweep's extreme, so size the position from that distance, not from the breaker itself.

Position size

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Related concepts

Order block

The last opposite candle before price displaced and broke structure.

Liquidity: buy-side and sell-side

Stops rest above highs and below lows. Price goes there first.

Market structure shift (MSS)

A sweep, then a displacement through the last swing: the market changed its mind.

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