Support and resistance levels are horizontal price levels that connect highs and lows, forming levels on a price chart. They can create trading ranges where price oscillates between support and resistance, or act as swing points in trends. In an uptrend, old peaks will provide support when retested, while in a downtrend old troughs will provide resistance. It is wise for scalpers to look for entry signals when a trend retests previous support or resistance swing points, as the trend is likely to resume from these levels, offering low-risk, high-reward potential.
Support and resistance levels are horizontal price levels that connect highs and lows, forming levels on a price chart. They can create trading ranges where price oscillates between support and resistance, or act as swing points in trends. In an uptrend, old peaks will provide support when retested, while in a downtrend old troughs will provide resistance. It is wise for scalpers to look for entry signals when a trend retests previous support or resistance swing points, as the trend is likely to resume from these levels, offering low-risk, high-reward potential.
Support and resistance levels are horizontal price levels that connect highs and lows, forming levels on a price chart. They can create trading ranges where price oscillates between support and resistance, or act as swing points in trends. In an uptrend, old peaks will provide support when retested, while in a downtrend old troughs will provide resistance. It is wise for scalpers to look for entry signals when a trend retests previous support or resistance swing points, as the trend is likely to resume from these levels, offering low-risk, high-reward potential.
Forex Scalping Technical analysis In this Part we’ll see only the important technical analysis indicators and patterns
01 Support & Resistance
Candlestick Patterns & Price
02 Action
03 Technical Indicators & Moving
Averages
04 How I personally analyze the
market for scalping SELL Support & Resistance
What is support and resistance?
Support and resistance levels are horizontal price levels that typically connect price bar highs to other price bar highs or lows to lows, forming horizontal levels on a price chart. A support or resistance level is formed when a market’s price action reverses and changes direction, leaving behind a peak or trough (swing point) in the market. Support and resistance levels can carve out trading ranges like we see in the chart below and they also can be seen in trending markets as a market retraces and leaves behind swing points. Price will often respect these support and resistance levels, in other words, they tend to contain price movement, until of course price breaks through them. In the chart below, we see an example of support and resistance levels containing price within a trading range. A trading range is simply an area of price contained between parallel support and resistance levels like we see below (price oscillates between the support and resistance levels in a trading range). Note that in the chart below, price eventually broke up and out of the trading range, moving above the resistance level, then when it came back down and tested the old resistance level, it then held price and acted as support… SELL
The other primary way support and resistance levels
are created in a market, is from swing points in a trend. As a market trends, it retraces back on the trend and this retracement leaves a ‘swing point’ in the market, which in an uptrend looks like a peak and a downtrend looks like a trough. In an uptrend, the old peaks will tend to act as support after price breaks up past them and then retraces back down to test them. SELL
In a downtrend, the opposite is true;
the old troughs will tend to act as resistance after price breaks down through them and then retraces back up to test them. Here’s an example of a market testing previous swing points (support) in a downtrend, note that as the market comes back to test the old support, the level then behaves as ‘new’ resistance and will very often hold price. It’s wise to look for an entry point into a trend as it comes back and tests these previous swing points (see pin bar sell signal in chart below), because it’s at these levels that the trend is most likely to resume, creating a low-risk / high-reward potential: See you in the next episode…