How to Use Pivots Points for Day Trading

Pivot Points are used by stock traders to find support and resistance areas based on the previous day's stock price action.

This stock indicator is a very useful tool that use the previous bars' highs, lows & closings to project support & resistance levels for future bars.

This stock indicator provides an idea of where key support and resistance should be. Place the pivot points on your stock charts and stock trading price will bounce off one of these levels. These levels are used by stock traders to determine market tops, market bottoms or trend reversals.

Daily pivots points are calculated from previous day's high, low, close

This stock indicator is shown below

How Do I Use Pivot Points in Indices Trading?

Analysis in Indices Trading

The central pivot itself is the primary level, which is used to determine the market trend

The other support and resistance areas are also important in calculating levels that can generate significant market movements.

This stock indicator can be used in two ways

The first way is for determining overall trend: if the pivot point is broken in an upwards movement, then the stock trading market is bullish, & vice versa. However, pivot levels are shortterm trend technical indicators, useful for only one day until they need to be recalculated.

The second method is to use these points to enter and exit the stock trading markets. This stock indicator is a useful tool that can be used to calculate the areas that are likely to cause stock price movement.

These points should be used conjunction with other forms of trading analysis such as Moving averages, MACD and stochastic oscillator indicator.

This stock indicator can be utilized in many different ways. Here are a couple of the most commonly techniques for utilizing them.

Trend Direction: Combined with other trading analysis methods such as oversold/over-bought oscillators, volatility measurements, the central point may be useful in determining the general trending direction of the market. Trades are only opened in direction of trend. Buy signal occurs only when the stock trading market is above the center pivot point and sell stock signal occur only when the stock trading market is below the center pivot points.

Price Breakouts: A bullish trading signal occurs when the stock trading market breaks up through the center pivot point or one of the resistances (typically Resistance Zone 1). A bearish trading signal occurs when the stock trading market breaks down through the center point or one of the supports (typically Support Zone 1).

Trend Reversals:

A buy signal forms when the stock trading price moves towards a support zone, gets very close to this point, touches this point, or moves only slightly through this point, & then reverses & moves back in the opposite trend direction.

A sell stock signal forms when the stock trading price moves towards a resistance level, gets very close to this point, touches this point, or moves only slightly through this point, & then reverses & moves back in the opposite direction.

Stop Loss &/or Limit Profit Values Determined by Support/Resistance: This stock indicator might be potentially helpful in determining suitable stoploss &/or limit profit placements. For examples, if trading a long breakout above the Resistance 1 it might be reasonable to position a stoploss.

Combining with Moving Average Cross Over System

A good indicator to combine and trade reversal signals is the MA cross-over which can be used to confirm the direction of a reversal trade signal.

An investor can then open an order once these 2 indicators give a trading signal in the same direction.

MA Crossover Strategy with Pivot Point Indicator

Moving Average Crossover Technique

Moving average crossover method that can be combined with this indicator to come up with a tradingtrade system for generating buy and sell stock signals.

To download Pivot points Indicator:

https://c.mql5.com/21/9/pro4x_pivot_lines.mq4

Once you download the trading indicator. Open it with the MQ4 Language Meta Editor, Then Compile the indicator by pressing the Compile Button & it'll be added to your MT4.

NB: Once you add it to your MetaTrader 4, the trading indicator has additional lines named Mid-Points, to remove the additional lines open MQ4 Meta Editor(short cut keyboard key - press F4), and change line 16 from:

Extern bool midpivot = true:

Extern bool midpivot = false:

Then Press Compile again, & the indicator will then appear as illustrated on this website.

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