Mitigation Block

A Mitigation Block is a Smart Money Concepts (SMC) term for an Order Block that has been partially or fully revisited by price—meaning the market has returned to the zone where institutional orders were originally placed—but has not yet fully reversed from that level. The term 'mitigation' refers to the process of the market 'mitigating' or addressing the price imbalance created by the original impulse move. Once a mitigation block has been tested and price reacts from it, it is considered a higher-conviction institutional level, as the revisit confirms that buying or selling interest remains present at that zone. Traders use mitigation blocks as refined entry levels, often waiting for a lower timeframe confirmation signal within the block before executing.