How to Use Pivots Points for Day Trading

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

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

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

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

This indicator is shown below

Analysis in Commodities Trading

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

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

This indicator can be used in 2 ways

The first way is for determining overall trend: if the pivot point is broken in an upward movement, then the market is bullish, and vice versa. However, pivot levels are short-term trend 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 markets. This indicator is a useful tool that can be used to calculate the areas that are likely to cause price movement.

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

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

Trend Direction: Combined with other technical analysis techniquesmethods such as oversold/overbought oscillators, volatility measurements, the central point may be useful in determining the general trending direction of the market. Trades are only taken in direction of the trend. Buy signal occurs only when the market is above the center pivot point and sell signal occur only when the market is below the center pivot point.

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

Trend Reversals:

• A buy signal forms when the price moves towards a support level, gets very near to it, touches this point, or only moves slightly through this point, & then reverses and moves back in the opposite direction.

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

Stop loss &/or Limit Profit Values Determined by Support/Resistance: This indicator might be potentially help-ful in determining suitable stop loss &/or limit profit placements. For example, if trading a long break out above the Resistance 1 it may be reasonable to position a stop loss.

Combining with MA 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 trading signal.

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

MA Crossover Technique

Moving average crossover method that can be combined with this indicator to come up with a commodity system for generating buy & sell trading signals.

To download Pivot points Indicator:

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

Once you download it open it with MQL4 Language MetaEditor, Then Compile the technical indicator by pressing the Compile Button Key & it will be added to your MetaTrader 4.

NB: Once you add it to your MetaTrader 4, the technical indicator has additional lines named Mid-Points, to remove the additional lines open MQL4 Meta Editor(short cut key-board key - press F4), & change line 16 from:

Extern bool midpivots = true:

To

Extern bool midpivots = false:

Then Press Compile again, and it will then appear as is exactly shown on this site.