Trader reviewing a busy chart setup

7 April 2026

How many levels is too many

Chart clutter is a mapping failure. A simple prune rule for support and resistance.

If every swing gets a line, you are not mapping — you are decorating. Useful charts carry a shortlist of levels that still influence decisions on your working timeframe.

Our prune rule is blunt: a zone stays if it has at least two reactions under your criteria, sits near current price or a higher-timeframe context you actively use, and has a written invalidation. Everything else archives.

Participants often cut their maps by half in the first session. The relief is the point.

Read the Mapping Lab process