Breaker Blocks: When Order Blocks Fail

A breaker block forms when an order block fails to hold and price pushes straight through it, flipping what used to be support into resistance (or vice versa).

How A Breaker Forms

Picture a bullish order block that is expected to hold as support. Instead, price breaks below it, triggering a structural shift such as a change of character. Once that break is confirmed, the zone often gets revisited from below — and instead of acting as support again, it can act as resistance. That flipped zone is the breaker block.

• Breakers are built on failure, not on the original order block's success
• They typically only become relevant after a confirmed structure break, not before
• A bullish breaker (failed bearish order block that flips to support) and a bearish breaker (failed bullish order block that flips to resistance) are mirror concepts