While the basics are present — trendlines, notes, zooming, Fibonacci, etc. — important tools, such as
support and resistance lines, channels, and the like, are missing.
Because the bands act as
support and resistance lines, a breakout of the price outside these bands is considered a potential trading possibility.
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
So that, your chart, once plotted, gives you a series of parallel ascending / descending trend /
support and resistance lines that tend to be respected or repeatedly tested, then broken by price action?
Support and resistance lines, Fibonaccis, moving averages as well as other tools may be incorporated and will merely help serve to cut down false alerts and whipsaws.
However, as a general rule,
support and resistance lines and trend lines are good starting points for analyzing technical setups and I wrote about one such setup last week with Chris Vermeulen giving us an example in this chart of what he saw headed into the week of the 14th (chart courtesy of The Gold and Oil Guy):
The bears have gained downside technical momentum and are on the verge of producing a bearish downside «breakout» from the sideways and choppy trading range as depicted by
the support and resistance lines seen on the chart.
See
the support and resistance lines on the chart.
As you would have rightly guessed already, the longer the timeframe, the more accurate
the support and resistance lines are.
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?
These support and resistance lines can help determine future price movements of a currency pair from past movement.
Just like
the support and resistance lines, support and resistance zones are a magnet for buyers and sellers.
The same strategies are applied on support and resistance zones as on
support and resistance lines.
I walked you through
support and resistance lines, support and resistance zones and channels; I talked about support and resistance breakouts as well as the way I apply support and resistance in real time.
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?
Right now, we are in the middle of a crucial test of
both support and resistance lines as the market decides where it will go next.
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.
Volume profile is, in its simplest form, used to indicate
support and resistance lines.
A rising wedge is a sign that the price of a stock is likely to fall and is identified by the gap between
the support and resistance lines closing over time; a falling wedge indicates the opposite, or that a stock's price could rise.
The Wedge pattern looks just like it sounds — a wedge formed by two lines called
the support and resistance lines.
A Wedge, then, is formed by
the support and resistance lines as they move toward each other.
Generally, prices are thought to move between
support and resistance lines until a breakthrough occurs.
Not exact matches
It's more than just not understanding how technical indicators are used, this very amateurish approach also includes the misplacement of trend
lines,
support and resistance levels.
Although it is bearish that SPY now has a plethora of overhead supply
and technical
resistance levels to contend with, one potential ray of sunshine in the storm clouds is that SPY is coming into major
support of a year - long uptrend
line.
After rallying 30 % off its 2012 low, $ RSX subsequently pulled back
and successfully tested new
support (prior
resistance) of its multi-year downtrend
line,
and now is forming the right -LSB-...]
After rallying 30 % off its 2012 low, $ RSX subsequently pulled back
and successfully tested new
support (prior
resistance) of its multi-year downtrend
line,
and now is forming the right side of this bullish chart pattern.
«Bitcoin price staged a strong rally to break past the short - term channel top
and aim for the longer - term
resistance... Buyers are taking control of bitcoin price action... Moving averages are in
line with the 4 - hour bullish channel
support at $ 610, adding to its strength as a floor.
Last month, $ EEM convincingly broke down below
support of a long - term uptrend
line,
and is now bouncing into new
resistance of that prior
support line (which is also converging with
resistance of its declining 50 - day moving average).
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.
Gold bounced off a trend
line support, Fibonacci 0.382
support,
and past
resistance turned
support as depicted on the H4 chart.
There are only 3 technical indicators you need to run this business:
support,
resistance and trend
lines.
Litecoin hit a low of $ 100.20 on Feb. 2 around
support of an uptrend
line, prior
resistance and just below the 78.6 % Fibonacci retracement of an intermediate - term upswing.
Technical outlook
and chart setups: Silver is testing the
resistance - turned -
support line of a consolidation around $ 14.25.
Ethereum's price is expected to continue surging in this positive uptrend -
and is soon expected to cross the $ 520
line of
resistance - which would become a new
line of
support for the currency.
Nevertheless, the stock still must contend with an abundance of overhead
resistance because it is merely bouncing off
support of its (downward sloping) 50 - day moving average
and prior downtrend
line.
EUR / USD: The EUR / USD is now consolidating as price oscillates between the
support line at 1.0500
and the
resistance line at 1.0650.
The
resistance level is denoted by the red
line and the
support level is denoted by the green
line.
This is also seen at the key
resistance of the range, note how the
line through 1.3140 is not touching the exact highs on September 14th
and 17th at 1.3171... this brings up the point that sometimes
support or
resistance is more of a «zone» than a strict / exact level.
You will also sometimes have existing
support or
resistance levels that basically run right through the center of a value area, showing about the middle of the value area,
and we can see this clearly by the blue
line in the chart below.
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As you can see from the chart above, the zero
line often acts as an area of
support and resistance for the indicator.
However, for convenience
and clarity, many technical analysts draw
lines to mark out
support and resistance.
By extending a parallel
line from the trend
line, we can form a trading channel that is useful for anticipating
support and resistance areas.
I trade in a daily chart
and check weekly chart if I'm having trouble to find a
support or
resistance line.
But from the stuff Philip shared in his thread, for exiting, he uses a combination of
support and resistance tools including Fibonacci targets, trend
lines,
and moving averages.
You can draw trend
lines and horizontal
lines to mark out
support /
resistance zones with any charting platform.
Market buys
and sells are determined in this index by the crossing of trend
lines or
support /
resistance levels depending on the particular market in question.
I no longer have the fear that i used to have when entering a position, Just a combination of the daily chart, with clear
resistance and support lines, plus a trend
line, lets me know quickly if there is a trade here.
Often, you will see a key chart level of
support or
resistance lining up with a 50 % retrace level of a major move, this is a very confluent level when this happens
and if you get a well - defined price action trade signal there it's almost a «no - brainer» trade, meaning you should probably take it
and not think too hard.
I find it more subjective
and that is why I do prefer to use only horizontal
lines for
support and resistance like the example below: