Figure 1
Now if we take this one step further and we measure the amount of price that has retraced into this downtrend, we will get the support points. If these support points (from the amount of retracement we get) show support and price bounces from them, we know that price will make another attempt to break the downward momentum and try to break that Downtrend Long level. In (Figure 2) we now measure the retracement to find out if an attempt to break Long will be underway what we find is support fails and the downtrend will continue. This is telling us the Downtrend is still prevailing.