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There are four main ways to calculate for pivot points:

  1. Standard
  2. Woodie
  3. Camarilla
  4. Fibonacci.

Pivots can be extremely useful in forex since many currency pairs usually fluctuate between these levels. Most of the time, the price ranges between R1 and S1.


  • Pivot points also allow breakout traders to identify key levels that need to be broken for a move to qualify as a strong momentum move.
  • The sentiment (or trend) traders use pivot points to help determine the bullishness or bearishness of a currency pair.



You’ll become more in sync with market movements and make better trading decisions.

Using pivot point analysis alone is not always enough. Learn to use pivot points along with other technical analysis tools such as candlestick patterns, MACD crossover, moving averages crossovers, the Stochastic, RSI, etc.


Forex Pivot Points