When you mention The AX... i would gather we are probably talking stocks... I have never used pivots on stocks... only liquid index markets... and i agree i only watch Pivots with a confluence of other aspects to exit, enter or hold a trade... I wonder what percentage of traders use pivots on liquid stocks... I hope some stock traders will comment on that... <img src="http://www.enflow.com/p.gif">
Updated Excel Sheet... Includes Overnight Globex Pivot Only Calculation Includes Yearly Floating Pivot Only Calculation... <img src="http://www.enflow.com/p.gif">
If you don't have Excel........... http://www.nationalfutures.com/pivotcalculator.htm also, I have an excel spreadsheet (can't remember where I got it, but I didnt create it) that uses the Excel function, "CEILING" to round the results to the nearest .25 for ES prices. For example, in your cell B6 you have the formula: =B7+(B3-B4) which returns the value, 1487.33 I change this to =CEILING(B7+(B3-B4),0.25) which returns the value 1487.5
That's a very good point... I manually round all my own pivot point calc results from .25 lower to even...as in 1444.25 goes to 1444.00... and anything between 1444.25 and 1444.75 goes in as a pivot value of 1444.50... and anything greater than xxxx.75 as the next round number up pivot... as in 1444.81 goes to 1445.00 rounded up... I have done this for years and have noticed the floor and majority of traders use these xxxx.00 and xxxx.50 numbers more commonly and aggressively than the xxxx.25 and xxxx.75 pivot figures... To make a long story short... i do not use xxxx.25 pivot values or xxxx.75 pivot values... only the xxxx.00 and xxxx.50 values... works quite well... <img src="http://www.enflow.com/p.gif">