Withdrawal

Withdrawal is invisible. A participant who had limit orders at a level simply decides to cancel them — not because aggression consumed them, but because they changed their mind. The level looks exactly the same on the chart. The orders that were there are gone. When price returns, there is nothing to absorb it, and it breaks through. Withdrawal is one of three reasons a level that held before may break, alongside consumption and scaling aggression. The chart cannot tell you which one caused a break — all three look identical from the outside.