Support and Resistance

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Support and resistance allow traders to guide themselves through the market. Once you mark these levels on the chart, you will see the structure of the market and be able to predict the direction of the price’s next steps as well as their size.

The idea is that these levels will most likely stop the price action and make it reverse. As a result, it’s a common approach to open buy trades at support and sell trades at resistance. If you want to get the benefit of trading a trend, then you will buy at support during an uptrend or sell at resistance in a downtrend. If you don’t trade trends, then you still can use support and resistance levels as your entry points and close positions at the next support/resistance levels.

Indeed, support and resistance levels also give a trader a hint where to close a trade. Thus, if you have an open selling position and the price is approaching a support level, you might think about closing your trade. The same thing is with a buy trade, the difference being that after you opened a buying position you need to mind resistance levels.

Support and resistance can be located in every timeframe. Yet, keep in mind that the bigger the timeframe, the more important is a support/resistance level. In addition, despite the fact that we talk about levels here, trading is not a precise science, so you actually need to think about support and resistance as an area. When you’ve identified support or resistance, you need to include a couple of pips around it. This will help you make your trading more accurate.

How to draw support and resistance lines?

Support and resistance come in different forms. Firstly, there are the diagonal trendlines we explained before. A trendline can connect the price’s highs and limit the trend on the upside. In this case, this trendline is called a resistance line. A trendline can also be drawn through the lows of the price chart and limit the price action on the downside. Such a line is called a support line. Support and resistance lines can be drawn in both uptrends and downtrends. You need at least 2 highs or 2 lows to draw a trendline through them. You can find more information about drawing trendlines .

Notice that during an uptrend, the support line is the most important one because if the price breaks below it, the trend will change to a downtrend. During a downtrend, the resistance line is the key one as a break above it would mean a reversal up.

As the market is constantly moving, it often happens that support and resistance lines and levels switch places. As you can see in the picture above, after the price fell below the support line it started to act as a resistance line.

Support and resistance levels

There are also horizontal support and resistance levels. One of the simplest and most effective ways is to draw them through the previous highs and lows of the price chart:

Other techniques traders use to identify support and resistance levels are moving averages, Fibonacci levels, pivot points, etc.

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