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May 20, 2026

Psychological Levels

How Many Tries It Took to Break Each Round Number.

The Psychological Levels tool counts how hard each round number was for a stock to break. Round prices like $100, $50, and $25 act as magnets and barriers, and stocks often test them again and again before clearing them for good. The tool walks a ticker's full price history, finds those levels, and shows how many failed touches preceded each final breakthrough, along with the date it finally broke through.

Most traders draw support and resistance by feel, but round numbers are the levels the whole market is watching at once. That shared attention is what makes them sticky: orders pile up, the stock stalls, and only after repeated attempts does it punch through. The decision-relevant question is not whether a round number matters, it is how stubborn it has been for this specific ticker, because a level that took five tries to break behaves nothing like one the stock cleared on its first attempt.

Not every round number is equal and not every test is a wall: how much a level matters depends on the increment ($100 vs $25), how many times the stock has already failed there, and whether it has broken through for good yet. A level cleared long ago is history, while one the stock keeps stalling under is live resistance. The tool separates the two and lets you add your own custom level, so you focus on the prices that actually shape this stock.

What the Tool Shows You

Every round-number level a stock has fought with, the failed touches before each one broke, the final breakthrough date, and a custom-level option, for any liquid US ticker.

Curve

Round-Number Levels

Every $100, $50, and $25 level a stock has fought with across its full price history.

Sides

Failed Touches

How many times price tested a level before it finally broke through for good.

Skew

Final Breakthrough Date

When the stock cleared each level for good, not just the day it first tagged it.

Move

Add a Custom Level

Drop in any price you care about and get the same failed-touch and breakthrough history.

Event

Live vs Cleared

Separates levels still acting as resistance from the ones already broken and behind the stock.

Table

Any Liquid Ticker

Pull the full round-number battle history for any liquid US name.

How Traders are using the Psychological Levels Tool

1

See which levels were hardest

Scan the round numbers and find the ones that took the most tries to break. Those are the stickiest levels for this stock.

2

Check the live resistance

Find the nearest level the stock has not broken yet. That is the one most likely to stall a current move.

3

Add your own level

Use the custom-level input to test any price, like an all-time high or an entry you care about, with the same history.

4

Time the breakthrough

Read the final breakthrough date to see how long levels tend to hold before this stock clears them.

See which round numbers your stock has battled today

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