Swing Highs & Lows
Another great way to find support and resistance levels is to mark levels in the past where price had a difficult time breaking through. As price moves up and down, each level that price has bounced off of could be a level in the future that price bounces off of again. This is a manually intensive method and takes time to draw on all the currency pairs that we trade, but can pay off in the long run.
Learn Forex: Swing Highs & Lows Acting As Support & Resistance
As the EUR/USD chart shows above, a level was drawn when price reached a new high or low (red circle). Later when price approached these levels again, they bounced off the same levels (white circles). The effect will not always be this clean, but it does occur fairly often. This is a method used quite often in Range Trading. We can buy at support with our stop loss below and we can sell at resistance with our stop loss above.
Pivot Points
Arguably the easiest support and resistance levels to add to our charts, pivot points are a built-in indicator on FXCM platforms that will automatically draw key levels without any effort on our part at all. Pivot points are created by the previous period's High, Low and Close prices, with the most common period size being the Daily period. We can use these levels just like any other potential support and resistance levels on our charts.
Learn Forex: Pivot Points
Lines O' Plenty
Support and resistance doesn't have to be confusing. We can mix and match any of the methods above and create a healthy amount of price levels that we can trade. As always, practice makes perfect. So make sure to test out these methods yourself on a Real-time FXCM Demo using their award winning charting package.
Good trading!
---Written by Rob Pasche
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