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An Auto Pivot Level Indicator
Developer Last Online: May 2008
People have been asking for an auto pivot level indicator. Here is the one I wrote. I use it every day and it is the most useful indicator I have written. I couldn't trade without it.
:wohoo: This indicator will calculate and plot automatic pivot levels and yesterday's high, low and close. It will also plot the non-auto levels of overnight high, low, and value area high, low and point of control. These non-auto levels must be input every day manually. The levels which are automatically generated may also be input manually if you so choose. This is useful on days where the previous day's chart is for one reason or another messed up. This can happen on rollover days or on days following holidays. The auto levels are calculated based upon the high low and close of the session in which the chart is displayed. So pick a session which reflect the proper open and close for the levels you are trying to generate. The indicator does not label the levels. However, I find labels obtrusive and rather chose to use different colors and line styles to differentiate the various levels. (See attached image.) A logical color and style scheme makes it easy to learn to identify the levels by sight, and once learned is actually more intuitive than reading labels. For my own use, I set the midpoints to gray and PP a unique color, R1 and S1 the same color, R2 and S2 the same color, and so forth. I make all the pivot levels dashed lines. High low and close I make solid green, red and cyan lines. Overnight high and low I make a lighter green and red. For value area lines I used variations on yellow with a hatched style. This takes some effort to set up but once you make it the default setting (click default) you don't need to do it again and is worth the effort. The plotting of each level is optional. For example, PlotR1 = 1 will cause R1 and its midpoint to be plotted. PlotHigh = 0 will cause yesterday's high to not be plotted. This is useful to make sure neither too many nor not enough lines appear on your chart. For example, there is no point in plotting R2 when price has never gotten higher than yesterday's close--it just scrunches the chart. There also is no point in plotting yesterday's low when prices has gapped up to R3. I use these every day to customize the level plotting and often change them several times a day when price moves around a lot. This flexibility is very useful to keeping the chart as readable as possible. Several non-auto levels--overnight low, high and value area values--can be input, but will only be plotted if PlotNonAuto = 1. Non-auto levels can also be also be input manually for the normally auto levels (pivots and high, low and close) if you so choose. This is useful on days when yesterday's chart is misleading for some reason, like on days after holidays when the stock market was closed but the futures market was open or on rollover days. These will be used only if PlotAuto = 0. On those troublesome days after holidays when the stock market was closed but the futures market was open, the market tends to respect the pivot levels generated from the day before the holiday. In that case you can optionally set PlotSkipYest = 1, which tells the indicator to use the day before yesterday's chart data to generate todays levels. I find this is the ticket most of the time in these situations. Pivot Level Formulas used: Resistance Level 4 = R3 = R2 + LastHigh - LastLow Resistance Level 3 = R3 = R2 + LastHigh - LastLow Resistance Level 2 = R2 = PP + LastHigh - LastLow Resistance Level 1 = R1 = PP * 2 - LastLow PivotPoint = PP = (LastHigh + LastLow + LastClose) / 3 Support Level 1 = S1 = PP * 2 - LastHigh Support Level 2 = S2 = PP - LastHigh + LastLow Support Level 3 = S3 = S2 - LastHigh + LastLow Support Level 4 = S4 = S3 - LastHigh + LastLow Uses the open and close of the chart session to determine auto levels. Input value meanings:
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GCB
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07-31-2007, 12:30 AM
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Re: An Auto Pivot Level Indicator
Mistake in documentation. Should read at bottom.
IOH -- Input overnight high. (Will be used if PlotNonAuto = 1 and the value <> 0, and so also for the inputs which follow except IR4 thru IS4). ... IR4 thru IS4 -- Input values for pivot levels. (Will be used if PlotAuto = 0 and the value <> 0). |
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Soultrader
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07-31-2007, 07:22 AM
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Re: An Auto Pivot Level Indicator
Nice... you are going to piss off alot of pivot point indicator vendors.
Thank you GCB. Great stuff. |
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GCB
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07-31-2007, 08:25 AM
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Re: An Auto Pivot Level Indicator
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GCB
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07-31-2007, 09:14 AM
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Re: New Version !
The name of the indicator you use should be $I-Levels, not the $-Levels which was in the first install. That's the old version.
(I use the $ to distinguish my indicators from TradeStation, "I" just means indicator. The $ makes mine sort to the top of any list which makes them easy to find.) |
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Soultrader
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07-31-2007, 09:17 AM
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Re: An Auto Pivot Level Indicator
Hi GCB,
I have updated the first thread with the new ELD attachment. For future reference, I have added the function of allowing certain forums to be editted anytime. You should be able to update, edit your threads in this forum at any given moment. Thanks. |
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