Mitigation Block

A mitigation block forms on a failure swing: price fails to print a new high or low — no liquidity is taken beyond the prior extreme, unlike with a breaker — then breaks structure. The order block left behind by the failed swing becomes flipped support/resistance: positions trapped in the failed move “mitigate” their losses when price returns to their entry, and those exits fuel the rejection. Worth knowing: a second definition has recently started circulating (a retested order block that holds, played as continuation) — the reference definition remains the reversal on a failed swing. Against the breaker, the criterion is simple: extreme swept = breaker, extreme never reached = mitigation.