Trade with Pivot Points

By definition, a pivot point is a point of rotation. The prices used to calculate the pivot point are the previous period’s high, low and closing prices for a security. These prices are usually taken from a stock’s daily charts, but the pivot point can also be calculated using information from hourly charts. Most traders prefer to take the pivots, as well as the support and resistance levels, off of the daily charts and then apply those to the intraday charts (for example, hourly, every 30 minutes or every 15 …
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