A move above a familiar high can hold or be rejected. Crossing the line tells you that higher prices traded. The closing price and the later return give you more evidence about which reading fits.
The October 29 quiz, Price Broke Higher. Did the Break Hold?, asks you to choose SWEEP, BREAKOUT or TOO EARLY on an original constructed chart. At its pause, BREAKOUT describes a closed move above local highs followed by a pullback that remains above them. It describes what has happened at this boundary.
Use the highs that existed before the break
The wider chart contains a decline from an earlier peak at 114 to a low at 90. During the subsequent recovery, price reaches local highs of 100 at candles 8, 12 and 15. Those highs provide the boundary for the question.
An area that repeatedly turns price down can give sellers a reason to expect another rejection. Buyers who want to trade beyond it need enough demand to reach higher prices. We can see the result in the candles, but cannot identify who bought, who sold or which orders were waiting.
Candle 18 closes at 103, above the local highs. That is stronger evidence of a break than an unfinished wick through 100. A closed break can still fail, so the next response matters.
Read the pullback against the same boundary
The return at candle 21 trades down to 100.5 and closes at 101.5. It remains above 100. Candles 22 through 25 also close above the old highs, and the last close is 104.
The completed sequence supports a breakout that is holding. There has been no return inside the local range before the pause. Calling every move beyond a high a sweep would miss that distinction. A sweep reading needs evidence that the move outside was rejected; the downside-sweep example shows a breach followed by a closed return inside.
A future return below 100 that stays there would weaken the holding-breakout reading. It would be new evidence, rather than proof that today's completed candles never held.
Keep the local break and the wider decline separate
Clearing 100 does not erase the earlier decline from 114. That higher peak remains overhead. A local recovery can strengthen while the wider chart still contains lower prices and unbroken resistance.
The source's conditional long uses entry 104, stop 99 below the held area, and target 114 at the earlier peak. Five units of risk and ten of potential reward give planned 2R before costs. The chart ends with that plan; it supplies no exit or success rate.
The practice examines the earlier open after candle 21, at 101.5. Its stop at 99 sits below the full return, while the first post-break high at 105 gives a nearer objective: planned 1.4R. This differs from the video's later 104 entry and farther 114 target. Authored future candles provide favorable and losing versions of the same completed setup. A separate version withholds the required hold. A correct pattern reading can still lead to a losing trade.