📖 How to trade horizontal levelsHello!
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Today we are going to focus on horizontal levels (HL).
➖HLs and other instruments are based on MA, they are used only for determining support and resistance levelling.
They are plotted depending on where the price movement stopped, where the price made its important high/low/close.
Higher timeframes are used to find horizontal levels and lower timeframes are used for more accurate measurements.
Monitoring the weekly level of graphs throughout a working out day, 3D or 4H is called “synchronization”.
🧐You should determine the horizontal level using at least two points, since the consistency and reaction of the price
should be checked. You should note that the usual “the more price rebounds from the level, the stronger it is” rule is not
working in this case. Actually it works in the opposite way, as the number of attempts increases the higher the probability
of breaking the level.
💡 For example, now it is very important for bitcoin to have a level of $10,000, which was formed in May 2018.
It held the price several times throughout several months, but in the end it was broken upwards.
Now it is the most powerful psychological support for most of the traders.
❗️ There is another advantage of horizontal levels — the longer the level holds the price, after breaking it, it will work
in the opposite direction either as support or resistance.
👉HLs are important psychological markers to which price is returning to for testing.
While reaching the level, the price movement may slow down, as many traders are
fixing their positions close to it.
👉In general, there are a few HL trading strategies. You should always remember
that a strong tool such as TA is just a guideline. You have to see the correct price
reaction, and simply buying or selling depending on the level without any
confirmations — is just a lottery.
📌By saying the correct reaction, we mean that there is a trade above or below
the level, as well as strong candlestick patterns. By the way, a combination
of HL and trend. Lines can form patterns, like triangles...
Horizontal
Support and Resistance Levels with auto Fibonacci Setup TutorialIdentify horizontal support and resistance lines using your choice of 6 methods.
Available options
Lookback window: Number of bars back to consider in calculations
Lookback window right (only applicable for methods 3 and 4): Number of bars to the right to consider in calculations
Number of S/R lines to plot: S/R lines to plot (currently the max setting is 4 so 8 lines due to pine limitations. I can post separate scripts for each method that allow more depending on user feedback)
Use Custom Time Frame? (M1, M6, M5 only work if viewing lower TF): Set a custom timeframe in minutes, then 1D for daily, 3D for 3 daily etc.
Calculation offset: How many of the most recent bars to ignore in the calculations.
Update Frequency: How many bars to wait until updating the lines since the last update.
Things to tweak.
I still need to test the methods, depending on that and feedback I can post separate scripts for each method that allow more depending lines or scrap some.
I'll tweak the parameters for using linebreaks to scrap them. Currently required a three close through it (so two in one direction and one in the other).
Fibs don't work on the static timeframe as I've reached certain restriction in the coding system.
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Below are some examples using the default settings (which I have not optimized as of yet)
Method 1
Method 2
Method 3
Method 4
Method 5
Method 6
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What Support Looks Like When It BreaksLooking at the m15 chart only can lead you to have the correct idea but in the wrong place.
By looking at high time frame charts you get a better picture of when a trend is in place, when a trend is no longer working or when there is no trend and we're in a range.
On the attached charts a daily time frame (top left) has a defined up trend and at 1.6700 the trend line and price meet for the 3rd time of Sept 27th. Here traders wanting to keep adding to long trade would initiate a long trade.
However by the close of the daily candle that idea is no longer valid, as the trend line did not hold as support.
Moving down through the smaller time frames we see that the days leading up to the 27th September have been consolidated into small daily moves. There is a clear line of support under these days that is clearly broken on the H1 chart etc. This equates to the time when the Daily candle approaches the rising trend line.
What we see happen next is that the broken daily horizontal support is now acting as horizontal resistance and price is trapped between this new horizontal resistance and the rising daily up trend.
When the horizontal resistance holds and the daily rising trend line are broke on the H1 candles traders waited for a quick retest and then went short. Accelerating the move.
Current ResearchI've been getting some messages about possible collaborations and questions about what I'm working on, so heres a few of my current projects that I will start working on in the next few months. If you have a good background in programming or maths and have interest in these projects feel free message me!
I- Holy Grail
a) Making the Holy Grail pick peaks and valleys better
b) Define zones of ranging, when price leaves these zones then enter the trend trade, range trade in the zone
c) Developing classes of new dynamic modulators, based on price and/or volume
d) Solving the dominate periods of price, the largest coefficients of the fourier series
e) Optimized scaling techniques based on unrealized p/l
II- Horizontal Logic
a) Identify horizontal lines that when crossed have a certain probability of crossing a next line
i) High probability lines will be targets
ii) Low probability lines are a good way to probabilistically define ranges
b) Find adaptive triggers that can identify good lines that will be crossed
c) Quantify these in time
d) Classify ranges and trends
III- Ichimoku Methods
a) Make excessive modifications to cloud for very high probability strategies
b) Optimized scaling techniques based on cloud/price information
c) Forward test, then automate