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Old 05-31-2007, 09:09 PM
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Re: YM pivots: fairly useless recently?

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they look like a VWAP for the day with some kind of atr applied on bands, could that be it ?
Very good walter. The blue line is indeed the daily VWAP, the green and red lines are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Standard Deviations of the VWAP. Taken together, they form a natural and convenient set of pivots from which to enter and exit trades. These pivots do not depend on the type of chart you use to display them. So for example if you start the VWAP computation say at the open of the day, then the pivots look the same on a 1 minute, 2 minute, 5 minute etc chart.

I use these plus the weekly, monthly and yearly VWAP data for all my trades.
JERRY

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