Definition

Rejection

Price being pushed away from a location with follow-through that continues across subsequent candles. A single wick is not rejection.

Full Explanation

Rejection requires follow-through. The initial move away from an area — a strong wick, a counter-direction candle — is not rejection by itself. What makes it rejection is what comes after: subsequent candles that confirm price is not returning to that area. Genuine, sustained movement away from the location that continues across multiple candles. Without that follow-through, what you have is a wick — evidence that aggression was attempted and absorbed, but not that price has been rejected. A wick followed by acceptance is not rejection. It is a wick followed by acceptance. The patience required to wait for follow-through before calling rejection is part of what makes the read meaningful.

In the Book 1 chapter

Chapter 11 · Reading the Current Market

Expansion, Acceptance, Rejection

Friction tells you how candles relate to each other. Bodies and wicks tell you what's happening inside each one. Now we zoom out one more step and give names to what those patterns of behavior actually look like when they accumulate across a stretch of candles.

From the Blog 1 post

The Market Is Always Doing One of Three Things

Most traders are looking at the chart asking one question: which direction is price going to move? It's the natural question. It feels like the important one. But it's actually the second question — and jumping to it before answering the first one is a large part of why trades that seem logical end up going nowhere or reversing immediately.