Price returning to a zone so trapped traders can exit at breakeven — the engine behind retests.
Mitigation is the process by which price returns to a level where a group of traders is trapped (underwater on their positions) so they can close their trades near breakeven. Their exits provide the order flow for the next move. Mitigation is the 'why' behind breaker blocks, retests of broken structure, and returns to order blocks. When you understand mitigation, you stop seeing random bounces and start seeing trapped money being released.
Every significant level has a story about who's trapped there. Mitigation is the chapter where they get out — and where you get in.
Shorts who entered at 5,830 watched price rally to 5,848. When price pulls back to 5,831, they exit at breakeven-plus-one. Their buy-to-cover orders fuel the next leg up. That's mitigation.
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