Market structure calculator
Higher highs, lower lows.
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Swing size calculator
How far this market's swings usually run, up and down, and how far the current swing has gone: early, typical or stretched.
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The bars
The swings
The current swing up has run 131.90 from 2,311.70 in 13 bars: 238% of the typical swing up in these bars (55.40).
- Where it could end
- It is already longer than the typical swing up; only 1 of the 7 swings up here ran past 66.10, and this one has run past that too. Late in a swing is a poor place to start a trade in its direction.
- The typical swings
- In these 80 bars there are 7 swings up, typically 55.40 over 5 bars, and 8 swings down, typically 45.00 over 3 bars. The typical swing up is 2.1 ATR; the 14-bar ATR is 26.90.
- Read it with care
- Typical means the middle of what happened here, not a law. Trends stretch swings in their direction, and a few swings are a small sample.
The last finished swings, newest at the bottom (marked): when each ended, which way, where it started, its size and how many bars it took.
| Ended | Swing | From | Size | Bars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 ago | Up | 2,284.70 | 55.10 | 4 |
| 39 ago | Down | 2,339.80 | 113.10 | 11 |
| 32 ago | Up | 2,226.70 | 66.10 | 7 |
| 29 ago | Down | 2,292.80 | 42.10 | 3 |
| 24 ago | Up | 2,250.70 | 56.40 | 5 |
| 22 ago | Down | 2,307.10 | 59.90 | 2 |
| 17 ago | Up | 2,247.20 | 111.50 | 5 |
| 13 ago | Down | 2,358.70 | 47.00 | 4 |
Education only, not investment advice. The answer comes from the numbers you typed in, not from your account or the market. Simulated results are hypothetical and have limits: real trading has slippage, gaps, changing results and emotions. Trading leveraged products can lose money quickly, including all of it. Risk warning
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Every market has a rhythm
Prices move in swings: up to a swing high, down to a swing low, and up again. This page finds the swing points by an exact rule, joins them into one line that alternates high and low, and measures each swing. The middle of those sizes is the typical swing, a target that comes from the market itself instead of a round number.
Read the trend the swings make with the market structure calculator, the levels where they turned with the support and resistance calculator, and size the trade with the position size calculator.
Not advice. Arithmetic on the bars you type; a swing describes the past bars, not the next one.
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