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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Pivot Points

Professional traders and market makers use pivot points to identify important support and resistance levels. Simply put, a pivot point and its support/resistance levels are areas at which the direction of price movement can possibly change.

Pivot points are especially useful to short-term traders who are looking to take advantage of small price movements.

Pivot points can be used by both range-bound traders and breakout traders. Range-bound traders use pivot points to identify reversal points. Breakout traders use pivot points to recognize key levels that need to be broken for a move to be classified as a real deal breakout.

Here is an example of pivot points plotted on a 1-hour EUR/USD chart:


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