Support & Resistance Indicator

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Building a support & resistance indicator in MetaTrader with MT4.
Published

6 May 2013 08:56

I was recently browsing through the variety of MetaTrader indicators for support and resistance levels. None of them ticked all of my boxes. Either they were not aesthetically pleasing (making a mess of my pristine charts) or they failed to produce what I consider to be reasonable levels. Embracing my pioneering spirit, I set out to fashion my own indicator, one which will ultimately tick all of my boxes.

Sample output from v1.2 of my support-resistance indicator is shown below for the weekly chart of GBPUSD.

Chart of GBP/USD showing support-resistance indicator.

I am pretty happy with this as a starting point. At present it caters for

I will shortly implement some obvious refinements. Foremost among these is the elimination of “trivial” levels (for example, the first support level).