An order block is the origin zone of an impulse: the candle, or small cluster of candles, from which price left with displacement. Edo Order Blocks and Edo Breaker Blocks both start there, which is why the two get mixed up. But they answer different questions. Order Blocks asks which fresh zones deserve attention while they still hold. Breaker Blocks asks which zones have already been lost, because a lost zone does not disappear: it inverts its role, and that inversion is the pattern the second tool exists to draw.
What Edo Order Blocks draws
Demand and supply zones detected by displacement: an impulse that closes beyond the highest high or the lowest low of the last N candles triggers a search back for the origin candle. Each zone then receives a quality score from 0 to 100 that combines body strength (30%), volume (30%), displacement strength (20%) and trend alignment (20%), printed on its label, and anything below your Minimum Score (40 by default) is never drawn. Every surviving zone is tracked through three states on every closed candle: Active, Tested when price returns and touches it, and Mitigated. The panel lists the active count per side, the Strongest OB reference and the score filter in use, and six lifecycle alerts cover the transitions.
What Edo Breaker Blocks draws
Only the order blocks that fail and invert their role. The indicator stores the block that originated each break of structure as a latent candidate and draws it only when price closes through it, confirming the polarity flip: a bullish breaker, former resistance now acting as support, in teal below price; a bearish breaker, former support now acting as resistance, in red above. Each breaker is a box over the range of the candle that originated the impulse, extended to the right and labelled Bull Breaker or Bear Breaker, and it moves through Active (thin border), Tested (price returned and respected it, thicker border) and Failed (price closed through it, dashed and faded, no longer extending). The structure profile is the familiar Scalper 5, Swing 10 or Long Term 21, an Impulse Lookback sets how recent the origin has to be, and only the most recent breakers per side are kept, six by default.
When Order Blocks is the one
When you trade the first return to a zone that has not been broken. Order Blocks is the ranking tool: a Bull OB at 80 is a far more reliable demand reference than one at 45, and the Minimum Score lets you tighten the chart in noisy markets or loosen it in calm ones. The test is the moment of reaction, and Touch Mode (wick or close) decides what counts as one. If your question is "which of these fresh zones is worth waiting for", this is the answer.
When Breaker Blocks is the one
When you trade the zone that already proved itself the hard way. A breaker is a level that has been lost and has come back with the opposite job: a bullish breaker below price is a probable support, a bearish breaker above is a probable resistance, and neither is a theoretical line. Waiting for the test, the Breaker Tested alert flags it, gives you a reference that has been respected twice, once as the original block and once in its inverted role. A Failed breaker is information too: a zone closed through no longer defends anything, and seeing it in time keeps you from leaning on it.
When you want both
When you want the full life of a zone on one chart. Order Blocks shows it while it holds; Breaker Blocks shows it after it breaks and flips. Running both, a zone that goes Mitigated in the first tool is the natural candidate for a breaker in the second, and the two panels together tell you where the live references concentrate: scored blocks still intact, and inverted blocks that price has already confirmed.
Side by side
| What you compare | Edo Order Blocks | Edo Breaker Blocks |
|---|---|---|
| What it draws | Fresh demand and supply zones, the origin of an impulse, while they still hold | Only order blocks that already failed and inverted their role, once the flip is confirmed |
| When a zone appears | On displacement: an impulse closing beyond the highest high or lowest low of the last N candles | On the close through a candidate block that originated a break of structure |
| How it ranks zones | Quality score 0 to 100 (body, volume, displacement, trend alignment) and a Minimum Score filter | No score: recency (Impulse Lookback) and a cap of six breakers per side |
| States | Active, Tested, Mitigated | Active, Tested, Failed |
| What a return of price means | The test is the reaction moment; mitigation retires the zone | The test proves the inverted role; a close through it retires the breaker |
