Pivot Points for Intraday Support, Resistance, and Trend Trading
Summary
The document presents a daily pivot-point framework built from the prior session’s high, low, and close. It calculates a central pivot, three support levels, three resistance levels, and intermediate levels. The author interprets price behavior between the first support and resistance as a range, movement into the second-level region as evidence of stronger directional participation, and tests of the outer levels as unusually extreme conditions that may accompany sharp reversals or strong trends.
The framework is intended to guide intraday decisions and market interpretation, not to be applied mechanically. The text offers no backtest, performance statistics, or risk rules, and its claims about which market participants dominate at different levels are qualitative conjectures. It also cautions that technical tools may be unreliable during extreme moves. The central lesson is to read price behavior around the calculated levels in context and adapt as conditions change.
Key ideas
- Pivot levels are calculated from the previous session’s high, low, and close.
- The central pivot and surrounding support and resistance levels provide a map for intraday price behavior.
- Movement beyond the first support-resistance range is interpreted as a possible shift from range trading to directional activity.
- Outer pivot levels mark extreme conditions, but the document says they do not guarantee reversals or continuation.
- The framework provides qualitative guidance without reported performance evidence or explicit risk controls.
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