Pivot points

NexusFi · 2018-10-09T15:58:44-04:00

How big a difference do you see between last tick at close and settlement price? Pivots are a calulation using high, low, open and close. These pivots are not really a exact science in most cases. How you think it is going to affect your trading? Can you give us a real time example? Yes I understand but it is not correct. The pivots are calculated using the last tick close as opposed to the settlement price. I have to manually put in this info before it populates the pivots correctly. I don't know why …

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Updated October 9, 2018

Pivot points

October 9th, 2018, 03:58 PM

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RDK91

Antwerp

Posts: 455 since Jun 2016

TradingOgre

Based on your favorite future being Oil, try setting your data series "Trading Hours" to Nymex Energy RTH. Not sure if that will mess up any other indicators you are using but it puts the end of day around 1430 Eastern Time USA.

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