ValhallaFutures uses some five disparate technical analysis concepts for the trade entry calls made every day in the ZoomCast subscription. The full software package, and the training to use them, comes only with the VF Trading Course. Membership to the course is by invitation only. However, an important element of the concepts used to acquire and label price levels, is included with the monthly trade room subscription.

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That piece of our larger software package available to monthly Trade Room subscribers is the Pivot-Exhaustion Grid. The next video is a good primer in how to identify the various categories of price levels you will see on your screen when you have installed the Pivot-Exhaustion Grid software. 

And further down on this page, below this next video, you will find a brief overview of the underlying technical assumptions of the Pivot-Exhaustion Grid.

The Pivot-Exhaustion Grid

A great deal of the technical methodology currently in use by traders is essentially designed to identify the price levels where the current trend will stop, and possibly reverse. Most traders who have spent any time investigating the subject are at least somewhat familiar with such concepts as Fibonacci, floor traders pivot points, and volume studies like Market Profile, Market Footprint and Order Flow.

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And much of the rules surrounding these technical studies are supposed to indicate areas, that if broken, can lead to an underlying shift in trend assumption.

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But our observation of the market leads us to quite a different conclusion.  We observer, that in fact, only a minority of these supposed support / resistance numbers successfully hold price to produce tradable swing reactions.  And furthermore, we find that prevailing trend will often not continue until one of these not-supposed-to-break price levels is distinctly violated in a pullback, often running protective stop-loss orders in the process. Once understood, the best position entries in the futures markets might be considered from different levels altogether.

For a bit of market psychology that lends a better understanding to this underlying principal, see the section called “The Valhalla Corollaries”, in a companion book to our work, titled True Self.  It can be found online under the same author as Pivots, Patterns and Intraday Swing Trades.

And for some further study on another critical aspect of the Pivot-Exhaustion Grid, we call Inverted Support/Resistance, regarding the incidents where true break-outs do, in fact, occur, you may watch Webinar #3 on the ValhallaFutures.com website.

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