Daily levels versus intraday noise on the same instrument
A horizontal drawn from daily swing lows compresses weeks of negotiation. The same price on a five-minute chart may be crossed dozens of times without meaning. Treating those crossings as equal breaks is a common source of frustration.
For daily levels, we often wait for a daily close beyond the zone before calling a break. For intraday lines, confirmation must be faster or the idea expires. Many clinic participants discover they prefer to map daily structure and only use lower timeframes for entry timing inside that map.
Levels also need a prior swing. A flat stretch of overlapping candles is not resistance simply because price paused. In class we reject examples that lack a clear originating move — it keeps the label meaningful.
If you trade both timeframes, keep separate journals. Mixing daily hold statistics with five-minute results muddies what you learn about support and resistance mapping.