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How To Draw Support and Resistance Levels Like A Professional
How To Draw Support and Resistance Levels Like A Professional
sitting there trying to draw in levels from the last 5 years like some tradersyou are wasting your time
if youre doing this.
OK! Now that weve cleared up those common myths about drawing S/R levels on your charts, lets
move on to some meat:
How I draw support and resistance levels on my charts:
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. Above
each chart is a brief explanation of why I drew the levels where I did.
Example 1: EURUSD DAILY CHART
Here we are looking at the current euro / dollar daily chart. Youll note the red lines highlight the
longer-term or key levels and the blue lines highlight the shorter-term or near-term levels. This is
how all the examples will be in this lesson and hopefully it will make it easier for you to differentiate
between what I often refer to as key levels from shorter-term levels that arent quite as significant.
In this example, you can see this market is clearly in a trading range right now between about 1.314070 resistance and 1.2830 support. Those are what I would call the key levels on this current daily
EURUSD chart. Within the range, we have some shorter-term levels that are still significant albeit less
so than the key levels just discussed. Of special note are the two shorter-term resistance levels
marked on the chart below. You will see that the one near 1.3070 is hitting a bar high from October 5 th,
but also its going through the bodies and middle of the tails of the bars from October 17 th 23rd. This
brings up a good pointa support or resistance level can be significant even if it isnt exactly touching
bar highs and lows. 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 14 th and 17th at 1.3171this brings up the point
that sometimes support or resistance is more of a zone than a strict / exact level. In this case the
resistance of the current range is really a small zone of resistance from 1.3140 to about 1.3171 (more
on support / resistance zones soon).
Also of note, there was an inside bar on October 18 th, and after the market broke down from that
inside bar it tried to rotate back up to about where it broke down at, and this breakdown level acted as
resistance and held the market off from advancing further, and then as we can see the market has
since fallen away from that level. These are some of the more subtle things you need to learn about
when drawing in your levelsespecially 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 its just for
the short-term.
Conclusion:
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. I suggest you try drawing the relevant levels on your charts now according to
what youve learned in todays lesson. Also, follow my daily Forex commentary for a good daily
example of how I draw the levels on a major market each day.
Determining where to draw your support and resistance levels is really not as difficult as many traders
make it out to be. When in doubt, slow down and take a step back, ask yourself if a level your about to
put on your chart makes sense and why. If it makes logical sense you should be able to easily explain
why to someone who has no trading experience. For example, you might say This level is important
because it clearly caused price to make a significant change of direction recently. 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. Dont be one of those traders with so many lines on their charts you cant
figure out whats happening. If you would like more help with drawing support and resistance levels
and how to use them in combination with price action strategies, checkout my Forex price action
trading course for more in-depth instruction.