hard · Volume Price Analysis
A trader sees price break above resistance and pull back to the broken level (now expected support) on declining volume, then resume upward — a classic polarity flip. Coulling's framework adds one decisive volume condition that distinguishes a TRADEABLE polarity flip from a failing one.
On the resumption bar that leaves the retested level, what must volume do for the flip to be trusted?
- Volume must EXPAND on the up resumption bar, confirming fresh demand stepped in at the retest; declining volume into the test plus rising volume out of it validates the flip
- Volume must stay LOW on the resumption bar too, because any volume increase signals supply re-entering and would invalidate the support that the level just established
- Volume is irrelevant on the resumption; the flip is confirmed purely by price holding above the old resistance, since polarity is a structural, not a volume, phenomenon
- Volume must be highest on the retest bar itself, not the resumption, because the test is where buyers must prove themselves before price can leave the level
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