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.
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.
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
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.
Just a quick question, Which time frame do you use to
draw your support and resistance level?
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.......
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.
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.
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.
Be sure to
draw in all obvious
support and resistance levels on your charts.
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 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.
I
draw in the key
support and resistance levels on the chart first.
Here's a good exercise for you to work on: When marking
support and resistance levels on your charts, mark the longer - term «key»
levels first
and then
draw the shorter - term
levels.
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.
These are some of the more subtle things you need to learn about when
drawing in your
levels... especially shorter - term
levels; that inside bar breakdown point held as a
resistance,
and often inside bar breakout points will act as
support or
resistance, even if it's just for the short - term.
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.
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.
What I have done here is simply
drawn in the obvious key
support and resistance levels and then highlighted the valid price action trade setups that formed near these
levels.
This is a good example of an important part of your forex trading plan for the week ahead, which is
drawing in the key
levels of
support and resistance.
The very first thing you should do after opening a new chart is to
draw key
support and resistance levels.
I believe it would be difficult to program an EA based on the Top Dog Trading system because of the use of multiple charts for fractal energy
and because I've never seen an EA that can beat the human eye
and experience when it comes to
drawing significant
support and resistance levels.
A chart with just pure price action
and the key
support and The same chart full of some popular indicators:
resistance levels drawn in: