Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Updated pivot status extracted from the API

A few keen users may have desired to venture into the API to discover that some pivot points are sometimes not plotted with the Swing indicator. Indeed there is a "hesitation" factor built in the algorithm, but only on the last pivot point. All older pivots stabilize after a while.

In order to better detect and use that information, the API now also outputs a pivot status e.g. peak/trough/hesitant. With experience, we can notice that the "hesitant" pivot is often a "glass ceiling", "glass floor" i.e. some sort of invisible support or resistance which is just being tested. It generally preempts a reversal, and can be used to update money management ahead of the reversal.

The new API call is : BV_GetPivotDir which returns -1 for a peak, 1 for a trough, and 0 (again on last pivot only) if pivot is hesitant.

The TS_TT DLL (version 1.2) is currently sent to all users, and updated EL indicators will be be posted here soon.