Support and resistance are the known cornerstones in Forex technical, wherein:

1. a current Forex rate (CFR) is surrounded by levels of:

a). resistance being superior to CFR;

b). support being inferior to CFR.

2. a level breakthrough triggers a leap to a consecutive support/resistance;

3. a false breakthrough is responsible for a rate backstroke (say, from resistance to support).

Thus, having data on resistance and support levels and being armed with R/S true/false criteria, a trader grows faultless-entry skilled to ensure smooth level-to-level trading.

To be found below is a graphic drawing of a flat followed by an R/S up/down breakthrough.

The chart 1. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

In actual sample GBPUSD trade dated January, 31, 2006 the support breakthrough has triggered a bullish in-session trend.

Simple, isn’t it? Affirmative at a glance, but 95% of traders loosing their forex deposits are calling for natural questions:

1. What’s the reason, the world traders are getting entangled in so a seemingly simple regularity?

2. What’s the way of correct detection of R/S levels for currencies to use to jet off from?

3. What attributes are inherent to true/false breach differentiation?

It is, thus, to be concluded that a trader will never achieve steady FX gains unless the answer is found to the above three simple questions.

CLASSICAL BOOKS ON RESISTANCE AND SUPPORT LEVELS

Forex scholars’ books, when analyzed, are giving grounds why 95% of traders turn deposit-killers. The point is that under different technical scholars:

a). fairly different understanding is being attached to support and resistance;

b). no distinct criteria (except Demark’s technique) is in service to finding a support and a resistance;

c). there is no clear-cut interfacing between R/S levels on different timeframes.

Below is sort of understanding classification:

1. A. Elder. R/S are understood by SOME SCHOLARS to be horizontal lines drawn along price highs and lows

support and resistance are horizontal (or almost horizontal) lines linking several minimums (maximums).

The chart 2. Support and resistance (For view picture see notes in end of article)

b). J. MURPHY also indicates that “points 2 and 4 represent uptrend support levels. The figure depicts uprising support and resistance under an uptrend with points 2 and 4 being support levels which use to be coincident with earlier lows. Points 1 and 3 indicate resistance levels, which use to be coincident with earlier highs” (see: “Technical analysis of the Futures Markets”

Fig. 3a and 3b. Uptrend and downtrend support-resistance levels (For view picture see notes in end of article)

2. SOME SCHOLARS believe support-resistance to be sloped lines drawn along price highs and lows (trend lines, actually) as below:

Fig. 4. Trend line-fashion support-resistance pattern (For view picture see notes in end of article)

a). T. DEMARK

Fig. 5. Bid pivot points (TD-points) building up a resistance level (For view picture see notes in end of article)

The TD-points are peculiar of price values being not exceeded within 2 adjacent days. The points are specially emphasized on the chart.

Note that the price movement above the TD-line is mirrored by same after the down break of this line.

Price projection Z is made by way of the following calculation:

- difference is taken between Y being maximum price above the TD-line and X being special price immediately below the TD-line;

- the obtained value is subtracted from A-B line breakthrough price.

b). L. BORCELINO is also a user of inclined lines as support/resistance (view:

Fig. 6. Quoting L. Borcelino: “As evident form these examples, trendlines, drawn across preceding highs and lows, constitute perspective support and resistance projection”. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

3. E. NAYMAN’S combined commitment of inclined and horizontal R/S levels (view: “Trader’s Minor EncyclopediaJ

“A resistance line connects market important maximums (highs, peaks)”, And further on: “R/S lines drawing should be preferably done through price concentration areas, rather than through highs/lows extremes” (???).

Per minimum price trend line (a support):

Fig. 7 (For view picture see notes in end of article)

Example of E. Nayman using resistance/support levels at trade station:

Fig. 8 (For view picture see notes in end of article)

4. MOVING AVERAGES based resistance/support levels.

a). E. NAYMAN: ”Bollinger Bands are sort of peculiar support/resistance lines

Fig. 9 (For view picture see notes in end of article)

5. ROUND NUMBERS being support/resistance levels

a). E. LEFEVRE (view: “Memories of an Exchange Profiteer” underlined: “Rates, having, for the first time, traveled 100, 200 or 300 points, are almost sure to cover additional 30 to 50 pips”

b). D. SCHWAGGER: “One is to be especially cautious about dollar holdups. With USD 781,25 best working on T-bonds and USD425 – on soybeans, temptation is raising to find “optimum” holdup for each market. It is advantageous to establish a round number to comfortably use it all of the markets.

CLASSIFICATION OF WEAK AND STRONG R/S LEVELS AS VIEWED BY FOREX SCHOLARS

J. MURPHY classifies support and resistance (view “Technical Analysis of Futures Markets”, New York Institute of Finance è Prentice Hall, 1986) proceeding from: price in-domain residence period (1); volume of trade (2) and price domain age (3).

1. The longer the price reciprocation period within a certain support/resistance area, the more critical the area. By way of an example, if a certain stagnation area observed a 3-week price up/down movement with subsequent rally thereof, this support domain is more important than that having observed a 3-day price reciprocation.

2. Volume of trade is another means to evaluate importance of support/resistance. If, say, a support formation did involve a huge volume of trade, it means a huge number of contracts passing from hands to hands, hence the support levels is ranking high and visa versa: the less the volume of trade, the lower-ranking the support.

3. Still another support/resistance importance indicator is its age in relation to the present moment. Since we are dealing with traders’ reaction to market moves and to positions they have entered or have failed to enter, it is fairly clear, that the younger the event and the reaction thereto, the more important the event.

Seven years later (in 1993), A. ELDER has confirmed 2 of 3 J. Murphy’s postulates dated back to 1986. His classification of resistance/support levels is guided by:

- number of test tangencies it sustained (the greater the number – the stronger the level). Within a fortnight an immediate support/resistance is formed; within 2 months the level grows accustomed to by traders, thus attaining medium power; within 2 years actually a stereotype is built radiating strong support and resistance.

- price scatter dominating a support/resistance level (the wider the range thereof – the stronger the level). A wide-range turning-point price consolidation is similar to a high fence surrounding valuable property. A congestion zone equal to 1 % of current price (4 points with S&P500 at 400 level) yields insignificant support/resistance, whereas a 3% area is responsible for medium levels with a 7% area possessing sufficient power to be a strong trend killer.

- The greater the volume of trade in a support/resistance area, the stronger the levels. Huge volume within a congestion zone is indicative of numerous emotional jobbers’ involvement. As opposite, minor volumes point out traders’ indifference towards the level being intersected, hence being attribute of the level’s deteriorated health.

Weak support/resistance levels are capable of bringing a trend to a halt, while strong ones may appear trend reversers. Traders buy support and sell resistance, thus turning their impact into a self-justifying projection.

SCHOLARS’ VIEW ON SUPPORT/RESISTANCE SEATING POINTS

1. T. DEMARK recommends:

- plotting resistance upon bid TD-points

- plotting support upon ask TD-points.

2. D. SCHWAGER (view: “Technical Analysis. Complete Course”) insists on drawing resistance and support “in the vicinity” of prior lows and highs.

“Support and resistance are to be viewed as approximate areas rather, than exact levels. It is to be emphasized that any previous high is not at all a premonition of perspective prices dry up thereat or there under. Instead, it is indicative of a resistance to be expected near that level. By analogy, a previous low is not at all illustrative of further price declines halting thereat or there above. Instead, it is indicative of a support to be projected close to that level.

Depicted below is a support zone governed by relative prior highs and lows concentration: gold, futures.

Fig. 10. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

Continued by D. Schwager: “Some technical analysts use to treat previous highs and lows as being endowed with, sort of, holy significance. A previous high, being 1078, is deemed by them a strong resistance. In case the market displays a spike higher, say, as far as 1085, they reason the resistance to have been breached. It’s not correct. Support and resistance are but to be looked upon as cloud-shaped areas rather than exact levels.”

3. J. MURPHY resorts to plotting support and resistance in a local peak-wise fashion (i.e. by local highs and lows): “A resistance level usually coincides with the previous peak level”.

Fig. 11. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

Fig. 12. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

4. A. ELDER: “Resistance and support are to be preferably plotted (see Fig. 13) through congestion zone margins (CZM) rather than through highs and lows. CZMs constitute traders’ mind-changing areas, whereas highs and lows are only reflective of panic among weakest jobbers”.

Fig.13. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

Continued by A. Elder: “Beware of support/resistance false breaching, indicated as “F” in the above figure. Breaches are followed by amateurs, with professionals being opposite travel jobbers. Now, pay some attention to the chart’s right corner, where prices have bumped into strong resistance. It’s high time to hunt for shorting with a stop-loss to be placed slightly above the resistance level”.

To be noted is a pronounced regularity, not referred to by A. Elder: the support/resistance levels drawn through previous local peaks are not extended by him after false breaching thereof.

4. D. SCHWAGER gives the following explanation when resorting to projection of 2 (!) inclined support and resistance levels:

- “Standard lines are usually drawn through price extrema (highs, lows), attributable to traders’ emotions, therefore these points may not reflect the market’s real trend”.

- “An inner trendline is to be plotted closest to the bulk of relative lows and relative highs, ignoring extreme points”

D. Schwager himself is the recognizer of the subjective nature inner trendline method, but in so doing he jumps to a very important conclusion that ordinary trend lines are:

- similarly subjective (!);

- far less helpful (!), than inner trendlines.

“One of inner trendlines’ shortcomings is their inevitably random nature, even greater than that possessed by ordinary trendlines, being restricted by extreme highs and lows, at least”.

“In practice, not infrequently, several options prove available as regards inner trend line plotting procedure (see Fig. 14). Nevertheless, my experience advises inner trend lines to be of greater avail than ordinary trend lines when spotting potential support/resistance areas”.

BRIEF CONCLUSIONS:

1. Each forex scholar offers his own interpretation of support/resistance levels, meaning different entities thereby (inclined, horizontal, inclined-horizontal, MA-based, round numbers-based, etc.).

2. There exists no clear-cut technique to define points to plot support/resistance levels through (except that of Demark’s).

3. In real time trading, that said, these levels discovery on Forex charts automatically entails absolutely different conclusions.

Fig. 14. (For view picture see notes in end of article)

TESTING AND PRACTICAL INCONSISTENCY OF CLASSICAL SUPPORT/RESISTANCE DETECTION METHODS

Jeffry Owen Katz and Donna L. McCormick have disclosed results of their testing of the above scholars’ recommendation procedures in their “Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies”:

TEST PROCEDURE 2

A channel breakthrough-operated system. Closing prices are utilized only; next day market price entry at session opening; commission and slippage being accounted for.

The above test has been performed exactly the way the previous one, but with no account to slippage (3 ticks) and commission (USD15 per dealing cycle). Although the model displayed perfect operation with no account to dealing expenditures, it has turned out a complete fiasco in practice.

Even the best-in-sample solution has proved loss-responsible only, and, as expected, the system’s beyond-sampling poor operation came into being.

Note: In compliance with E. Nayman’s theoretical outlook, a channel upward breach is alleged to be a STRONG (!!!) trading signal at an uptrend.

TEST PROCEDURE 6

It is a closing price breakthrough system with next day per stop-order entry. The model longs via a stop-order at the point of breaching a resistance appointed by recent highs and shorts via a stop-order at the point of breaching a resistance appointed by recent lows.

As expected, the system exhibited much poorer operation with low profit and deteriorated statistics within sampling. The model proved killer to the per-deal average of USD798, with profit rating being 37%.

TEST PROCEDURE 7

The procedure involved volatility punch with next-day opening entry. The model longs upon next-day opening with provision that today’s closing appears superior to the volatility upper edge. The model shorts in case of the price falling below the above edge.

The optimization period embraced 240 dealings only with 45% being profit-bringing.

TEST PROCEDURE 9

Involved is volatility punch triggering a per stop-order entry. The model effects a market stop-order entry immediately after passing a breach point.

The sampling period incorporated 1465 dealings, each being of 6-day average duration. The system has ensured 40% profit with average gain of USD 931 each. Under all parameter combinations only longs were winning. Both shorts and longs proved loosing outside sampling limits. Only 29% were winning out of the total of 610 dealings.

BRIEF CONCLUSIONS:

Testing data, supplied by Jeffry Owen Katz and Donna L. McCormick, constitute convincing grounds that forex scholars’ trading systems involving support/resistance breakthrough (the way these are described by the scholar) are rather likely to result in loss than in profit. This is one of the reasons for 95% of traders to turn their forex deposits killers.

In as much as the support/resistance related theory is so mixed up and subjective, it is only to be guessed what sort of support/resistance reading-matter may be offered by modern forex brokers’ websites.

Fig. 15 (For view picture see notes in end of article)

d). these recommendations aftermaths are apparent: the GBP has punched 1 point to 1,9001 and swiveled down to 1,8871; the EUR reached 1,2958 and reversed to 1,2853.

Brokers’ recommended support/resistance on the EUR/USD and GBPUSD as of June, 12, 2006 morning:

- EUR/USD: support 1.2780, 1.2740, 1.2685/90 1.2600, resistance 1.2890, 1.2930/40, 1.3000.

- GBP/USD support 1.8740, 1.8670, 1.8560, resistance 1.8890, 1.8940, 1.9000

EUR/USD support 1.2820 resistance 1.22940

GBP/USD support 1.8805 resistance 1.8950

The June, 12, 2006 information on technical levels of EUR/USD and GBP/USD is missing with the support/resistance levels themselves being quoted in incidental unsystematic fashion.

EURUSD:
- support: 1.2840, 1.2800, 1.2770/50, 1.2720, 1.2670, 1.2630, 1.2600/1.2580, 1.2540, 1.2500,

1.2460, 1.2400/1.2390, 1.2350, 1.2300, 1.2250.
- resistance: 1.2890/1.2900, 1.2960, 1.3000, 1.3040, 1.3100, 1.3150, 1.3200/10.

GBPUSD
- support: 1.8840, 1.8800, 1.8740/30, 1.8700, 1.8670/60, 1.8630, 1.8590, 1.8535, 1.8500,

1.8450, 1.8400, 1.8360, 1.8300, 1.8270.
- resistance: 1.8870/80, 1.8915/20, 1.8940/50, 1.8990/1.9000, 1.9060.

EURUSD:

RES 4: $1.2990 RES 3: $1.2965 RES 2: $1.2940 RES 1: $1.2915
CURRENT PRICE: $1.2890
SUP 1: $1.2830 SUP 2: $1.2795 SUP 3: $1.2755 SUP 4: $1.2685

GBPUSD

RES 4: $1.9080 RES 3: $1.9000 RES 2: $1.8960 RES 1: $1.8915

CURRENT PRICE: $1.8895
SUP 1: $1.8815 SUP 2: $1.8725 SUP 3: $1.8725 SUP 4: $1.8515

Are You not getting mixed up? Each broker presents his own support/resistance levels different from others’. With the above diversity of levels being recommended any true/false breach of any technical level proves out of question.

Should we attempt to simultaneously depict all the support/resistance levels furnished by various Forex brokers, we’ll ultimately find ourselves facing a picket fence thereof.

The arrangement is reminiscent of J. Schwager’s “Technical Analysis. Complete course”, raising a question: “Is technical charting to be referred to as a prediction engine or as folk arts?”

Probably, the best way out here is:

1. In view of huge number of Forex scholars’ opinions, let everyone answer this question independently with the purpose of finding out the way to faultlessly pinpoint support/resistance levels.

2. Let everyone decide whether he is going to believe the support/resistance levels, released daily by various Brokers and Dealers, provided that:

a). one has no idea of the definition principles thereof;

b). the above levels being offered at websites by non-traders or by ex-losers.

Otherwise the natural result will remain equal to 95% of losers worldwide.

SUPPORT/RESISTANCE LEVELS CONSTRUCTION UNDER MASTERFOREX-V TRADING CONCEPT

1. Support and resistance levels are to be split into those of flat and trend:

a). support/resistance levels are horizontal when in flat;

b). support/resistance levels are inclined when in trend.

2. Various kinds of support/resistance are intrinsic to various trend types (if You are considering 4 trend types, You will face 4 R/S grids; if 5 trend types are being dealt with, there will emerge 5 R/S grids respectively).

3. A larger trend is of greater significance in respect to a minor one, whereas minor trend support/resistance levels are of more accurate nature than those of larger one. This issue has not at all been touched upon either by forex technical “scholars”, or by modern “analysts”.

4. All the 4 trend-type support/resistance detection procedure is elaborated in the fashion enabling the Masterforex-V Academy hundreds traders to daily set up support/resistance levels with 1-2 points deviation, due to forex quotes difference from various Brokers. This aspect has not been considered by forex technical scholars either.

5. It appeared indispensable to simultaneously analyze the minimum of 2 ally currencies’ support/resistance levels (say, GBPUSD, EURUSD) since there is the formula:

“True R/S level breach by the forex pair 1 + False R/S level breach by the forex pair 2 = EITHER False R/S level breach by the forex pair 1 OR True R/S level breach by the forex pair 2”

This aspect has not been considered by Forex technical scholars either.

6. Minor timeframes intermediate R/S levels ARE DIFFERENT from those being manifested under Forex trendwise travel. This aspect has not been subject to investigation by Forex technical scholars either.

7. The available technical analysis scholar literature on support/resistance levels contains plentitude of helpful and … data. The objective is to effect independent synthesis of T. Demark’s, A. Elder’s, E. Nayman’s, J. Murphy’s, D. Schwager’s techniques with the above Masterforex-V principles in order to attain proper understanding of the way prior binary regularities tailor further movement perspectives.

8. A combination of 4 trends and more is helpful in 1-4 point-accurate detecting forex trading session local extrema.

With the above said, it proves strange to hear the statement of Ch. Lebau and D. Lucas (see: Computer-aided analysis of Futures Markets, reading: “We do not believe in exact price prediction popular practice”.

BUT THEN:

- What’s the way the Masterforex-V Academy students manage to profit now and then?

- Do they independently establish support/resistance levels on multiple timeframes of numerous

ally currencies?

- Do they check their established levels against a primary source (wherefrom the Brokers’ analysts

use to crib a support/resistance)?

- Do they understand principles of true/false breaching of each level and of a bounce there from?

- Are they capable of calculating in-session currencies travel margins to a destination, where after

the above currencies bounce off and exhibit corrective reversal?

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I get questions from my subscribers from time to time, what will I do with the e-mail addresses when I collect them? I have to assume that if someone asked that question they’re not familiar with the autoresponder principle in some way. They believe that they are literally collecting these e-mails and names themselves. How do I assume this? I assume this first because that’s actually what I did when I first started. I bought some type of a free responder program, that didn’t actually do the mailing and I don’t remember what it was or how it worked but I was able to harvest the names in e-mail when someone opted in. I didn’t really understand the concept of autoresponder yet but I wanted to collect their names and e-mail addresses. When I think back at how I built this list, and and I laugh when I think back to how I did things when I first got started.

I literally programmed my webpage so that it would give people an opt in box and they would enter their name and e-mail in my website, and it would send me an e-mail with their name and e-mail address and I would enter them one by one in my list of contacts in my yahoo e-mail. And I did this until I to where I was doing two or three subscribers a day. I was literally scheduling e-mails out and I would send them; I would create these different lists every couple of days or so I could send him the next e-mail in line and I did it this way until I got to about a hundred e-mails. Then I clicked send one time, and Yahoo wouldn’t send my e-mail, because there were too many people to box, and so I split it into two.

Well I realized right away that I had to go with an autoresponder and so that’s what I did. I say all that to say that no matter how you are doing it, it is ok – but you can probably improve. I have over 6000 people in my e-mail list right now and there is no way that I can manage that on my own if I were to try to mail that without an autoresponder service I would be very quickly blacklisted by all the major e-mail providers, and all of my e-mails would be going to spam filters. So all of this to say that I do recommend you use a professional autoresponder service. I personally use and recommend aweber. I think that they are the best autoresponder service. And I’ll just leave it right there

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This is obviously not designed to teach you about the travel industry. I simply use that as an amazing example because I was sent to a squeeze page by this travel agency, and I’m not used to being sent to squeeze pages by big Fortune 500 companies I’m used to being sent to a squeeze page by information brokers online, because they’re trying to leverage to hundred visitors a day in the 500 visitors.

But this travel agency will probably get 10,000 visitors a day and is perhaps trying to leverage those 10,000 visitors a day into 50,000 visitors a day by sending those repeat e-mails. But I would imagine at least once a week until I opt out of that list and, honestly, I probably won’t opt out of that list then. I will probably receive an e-mail from them once a week for a long period of time.

Now, my guess is also that if I were to show some buying interest; if I were to click through a particular e-mail say three times in one day and I haven’t clicked for awhile, if their software is up-to-date like it should be they are going recognize that I am now a hot prospect again. They are going to identify where I’m flying to or identify the pattern of the types of searches I am making and then they are going to send me some more information, perhaps as many as three or four e-mails in one day, especially if I continue to open them.

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I received recently an invite through my e-mail provider to click over to a travel agency and although I won’t name the travel agency, I was surprised, shocked and very pleased to see that this travel agency, a well-known travel agency sent me to a squeeze page and not to their pricing page. I thought that that was very interesting.

If you do the math and you think about the whole pricing game right now, on the Internet with especially Web fares and other special fares probably 10 different popular sites and a hundred different less popular sites where you can buy airfares or within two dollars of each other so. I recently purchased a flight to a vacation destination and you know I could buy a ticket for $349. I knew I could buy the same ticket for a few dollars more directly from the airline or from one of the airlines where I could get my points or my airline miles. Anyhow, I thought it was very interesting that a major company, not just some small business website trying to maximize revenue, is coming up with this opting e-mail thing and the thing is, I received several e-mails within the first 24 hours.

Remember this is a large travel company. Now what do they know of e-mail marketing that we don’t know. They know that when someone is looking for a ticket there is a high possibility they will buy one within 24 hours. However, I can almost guarantee that their e-mail or their booking rate is higher for multiple e-mails the very first day than it is with one e-mail. Plus it gives them an opportunity to differentiate themselves from all of the other companies.

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It’s important to have a theme when decorating an outdoor space. Most people see the outdoors as the “doorway” to the rest of your house, so if you don’t make it a welcoming area, people won’t want to spend any time there.

To begin decorating your space, find something that is unique to your sense of style. Don’t just listen to your friends and family, because they might not know exactly what you like. Find something totally your own.

Someone once told me to always buy stuff that fits your taste, even if you have a mismatching house full of junk, it’s still your taste. Eventually, everything will pull together and you’ll have a house you love. Gardens and patios are the same way. Keep putting things you like to see out there and it will add up in the end and pay a large dividend.

I find that earth tones are good to place near your home and bright solid colors are best for the periphery of the space. People really like focal points to look out at, so often you see large plants at a distance from your eye. Be careful not to distract the eye with too many large objects, while still making sure you aren’t spreading your items to thin. Flow is important, and if you have gaps between where your eyes flow, you will have gaps in your enjoyment.

Don’t ever forget that you can always change things. If something is too fixed and permanent to be easily moved around, it’s not worth the effort. You will appreciate changes as you go… keep the space fluid and you will be rewarded amply.

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