Mitigation Block

A mitigation block is a zone where price initially tried to continue in one direction, failed, and reversed — without necessarily breaking any prior level in the process. It gets marked because participants who entered on the failed side are still holding a losing position, and if price returns to that zone later, some of them will look to exit near breakeven rather than take a full loss. That exit activity is the "mitigation" — offsetting a bad entry — and it's treated as a place price may pause or react on the way back through.

How it differs from an order block or breaker block

These three terms get mixed up constantly because they're all "zones traders return to," but the distinction is in what created each one. An order block is defined by origin — the last opposing candle before an impulsive move. A breaker block is an order block that later fails and flips. A mitigation block doesn't require either of those — it's simply the first real pullback opportunity after a move, framed around trapped participants rather than around where the move technically originated.