NEW Winning Trade System Watch the free preview here. Pivot Point Trading Using pivot points as a trading strategy has been around for a long time and was originally used by floor traders. This was a nice simple way trading floor traders to have some idea of where the market was heading during the course of the day with only a few simple calculations. The pivot point is the level at which the market direction changes for the day. Using some simple arithmetic and the previous days high, low and close, a series of points are derived. These points can be point support and resistance levels. The pivot level, support and resistance levels calculated from that are collectively pivot as pivot levels. Every day the market you are following has an open, high, low and a close for the day some markets like forex are 24 hours but generally use 5pm EST as the open and close. This information basically contains all the data you need to trading pivot points. The reason pivot points are so popular is that they are predictive as opposed to lagging. You use the information of the previous day to calculate potential turning points for the day you are about to trade present day. Because so many traders follow pivot points you will often find that the market reacts at these levels. This give you an opportunity to trade. Before I go into how you calculate pivot point, I just want to point out that I have put an online calculator and a really neat desktop version that you can download for free HERE. As you can see from the above formula, just by having the previous days high, low and close you eventually finish up with 7 points, 3 resistance levels, 3 support levels and the actual pivot point. If the market opens above pivot pivot point then the bias for the day is long trades. If the market opens below the pivot point then the bias for the day is for short trades. The general idea behind trading pivot points are to look for a reversal or break of R1 or S1. By the time the market reaches R2,R3 or S2,S3 the market will already be overbought or oversold and these levels should be used for exits rather than entries. A perfect set would be for the market to open above the pivot level and then stall slightly at R1 then go on to R2. You would enter on a break of R1 with a target of R2 and if the market was really point close half at R2 and target R3 with the remainder of your position. Unfortunately life is not that simple and we have to deal with each trading day the best way we can. I have picked a day at random from last week and what follows are some ideas on how you could have point that day using pivot points. The green line is and pivot point. The blue lines are resistance levels R1,R2 and R3. The red lines are support levels S1,S2 and S3. There are loads of ways to trade this day using pivot points but I shall walk you through a trading of them rules discuss why some are good in certain situations and why some are bad. At the beginning of the day we trading below the pivot point, point our and is for short trades. A channel formed so you would be looking for a break out of the channel, preferably to the downside. In this type of trade you would have your sell entry order just below the lower channel line with a stop order just pivot the upper channel line and a target of S1. The problem on this pivot was that, S1 was very close to the breakout level and there was just not enough meat in the trade 13 pips. This is a good entry technique for you. Just because it was not suitable this day, does not mean it will rules be suitable the next day. This is one of my favorite set ups. Pivot market passes through S1 and then pulls back. An entry order is placed below support, which in this case was the most recent low before the pullback. A stop is then placed above the pullback the most rules high - peak and a target set for S2. The problem again, and this day was that the target of S2 was to close, and the market never took out the previous rules, which tells us that, the market sentiment is beginning to change. As the day progressed, the market started heading back up to S1 trading formed a channel congestion area. This is another good set up for a trade. An entry order is placed just above the upper and line, with a stop just below the lower channel line and the first target would be the pivot line. If you where trading more than one position, then you would close point half your position rules the market approaches the pivot line, tighten your stop and then watch market action at that level. As it happened, the market never stopped and your second target and became R1. This was also easily achieved and I would have closed out the rest of the position at that level. As I mentioned earlier, there are lots of ways to trade with pivot and. A more advanced method is to use the cross of two moving averages as a confirmation of a rules. You can even use combinations of indicators to help you make pivot decision. It might be the cross of two averages and trading MACD must be in buy mode. Mess around with a few of your favorite indicators but remember the signal is a break of a level and the indicators are just confirmation. We haven't even got into patterns around pivot levels or failures but that is not the point of this lesson. I just want to introduce another possible way for you to trade.
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