This is why it's so important to
draw support and resistance levels before scanning for signals.
After you have a general idea of how
I draw my support and resistance levels, you should have no problem using that knowledge as a guideline to draw the levels yourself.
We get tons of emails each week from traders asking how to properly
draw support and resistance levels on their charts.
Basically, I'm going to take you guys on a ride through my brain (scary I know) as I decide where to
draw support and resistance levels on some real - time daily charts.
The ability to properly
draw support and resistance levels is one of the most basic skills every price action trader must have.
However I wish to ask that if we are trading with the daily timeframe are we going to use the swing lows and swing highs of the higher timeframe to
draw the support and resistance lines?
Just a quick question, Which time frame do you use to
draw your support and resistance level?
Todays Video Talks about how to
Draw Support and Resistance on Your Forex Charts.
This video discusses how to
draw support and resistance levels on your charts in order to plan for the upcoming trading week.
That being said, I always
draw my support and resistance levels off of the real bodies of the candlesticks — not the highs or lows.
I hope you now have a better idea of how
I draw support and resistance levels on my charts and why I draw them where I do.
Often times, support and resistance are more «zones» than exact «levels», sometimes you will have a key level that is indeed an exact level, but more often than not we are going to be
drawing our support and resistance lines midway through bar tails or even through the body of a bar sometimes.
Many traders make the process of
drawing support and resistance levels a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
this is a good and self - confident approach to
drawing support and resistance level.......
To get started, let's clear up a few common myths about
drawing support and resistance levels...
Here's a video on
drawing support and resistance levels.
You can read a tutorial on
drawing support and resistance levels here — http://www.learntotradethemarket.com/forex-trading-strategies/how-to-draw-support-and-resistance-levels
As I am a member of your great website; do you agree that
drawing support and resistance lines depending on closing price are more effective than using highs and lows of prices?
Drawing support and resistance levels should be one of the easier and stress - free things you do as a price action trader.
Simply put, gaps can provide you with extra confluence when
drawing support and resistance levels.
One last point about
drawing your support and resistance levels.
By using the highs and lows as a guideline to start
drawing your support and resistance levels, you're more likely to capture the «key» levels.
To get started, let's clear up a few common myths about
drawing support and resistance levels...
Many traders make the process of
drawing support and resistance levels a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
this is a good and self - confident approach to
drawing support and resistance level.......
Hi Justin, I love this Fibonacci lesson, I make use of the Fibonacci on the H4 and with this lesson on combining it with price action (already
drawn support and resistance) to confirm, is wonderful.
Why do you never draw a chart in the future, its not easy he, al you do is
drawing support and resistance lines, so easy to do
The FractalTrend indicator
draws support and resistance trend lines on the Metatrader 4 charts.
Not exact matches
Drawing horizontal lines at these price levels can help you develop a sense of where the selling pressure overcomes buying pressure, at
support,
and buying pressure overcomes selling pressure at
resistance.
Figure 2 simply shows a «zoomed in» weekly chart with the latest
support and resistance levels
drawn in order to identify potential «target» levels.
My strategy is the same, I look at the charts
and the candles,
draw trendlines look for
resistance and support, watch out for any news
and try to make it as possible to justify that when I take that bet my odds are calculated in my favor.
Below are examples of how I would
draw the relevant
support and resistance levels on some of the major Forex pairs, Gold, Crude Oil
and Dow Futures as they stand at the time of this writing.
In the chart above, important
support levels are
drawn in green
and a
resistance level is
drawn in red at August's closing price of $ 177.69.
If you just take a logical approach to
drawing in your
support and resistance levels you will save yourself a lot of time
and frustration in the end.
Do I
draw key
support and resistance levels from the pinbars?
In my daily Forex commentary each day, I
draw in the key levels of
support and resistance that I feel are the most significant in the current market environment.
The $ 500 million stadium plan
drew initial
support from Cuomo's administration, but collapsed in early 2014 due to
resistance from Mayor Stephanie Miner
and others.
The paper
draws on scientific studies to recommend ways to reduce disease impacts, such as limiting the mixing of bees between colonies
and supporting natural bee behaviors that provide disease
resistance.
However, for convenience
and clarity, many technical analysts
draw lines to mark out
support and resistance.
Be sure to
draw in all obvious
support and resistance levels on your charts.
You can
draw trend lines
and horizontal lines to mark out
support /
resistance zones with any charting platform.
Finally, I don't expect you to take my word for any of this, instead, go look at the daily charts for yourself,
draw in the horizontal
support and resistance levels
and learn to spot the price action strategies that I teach.
In the chart above, important
support levels are
drawn in green
and a
resistance level is
drawn in red at August's closing price of $ 177.69.
i started crying when i saw your
support and resistance drawing and looking back in time to see how it works in confluence.Nial you are really the best guy dude.a big Thanks to you, GOD BLESS YOU
I also
draw in the «interim» levels on the chart after
drawing in the major S&R levels, these «interim» levels are smaller or perhaps less significant
support and resistance levels on the chart.
The weekly
support and resistance forex indicator
draws horizontal S / R levels on the chart based on the weekly candlestick from past week.
It will also make your life much easier when it comes to
drawing key
support and resistance levels.
However, I'd like to know how far back in time you go to
draw your horizontal
support and resistance levels.
Once you've
drawn your key
support and resistance levels (which should always be the first step), you simply wait for a price action signal to develop.
Now let's look at the same chart with no indicators at all, there is nothing but pure price action
and a couple of horizontal lines
drawn in to show significant
support and resistance levels.