CPR or Central Pivot Range is a tool for identifying a trend, its volatility and its future targets for the price levels (in up or down directions).
What this indicator offers: - Main purpose of this indicator is to display levels of support/resistance in a given trend as potentially good levels of entering into position or existing from a position. Entry levels are RED, resistance levels are in GREEN. - You have the ability to view daily, weekly, monthly pivot levels, depending on what kind of trader you are. - Unique to this indicator - you have the ability to view YEARLY pivot levels. - Unique to this indicator - you have the "Pivots History" option to either show all history or just the recent piriod to make your chart clean of "noise". - Unique to this indicator - you can view "future" pivot levels based on current price. - You have the ability to view "future pivots" which can be useful as entry or exit levels for the current trend. - You have the ability to view one, two, three or four pivor levels concurrently depending on how much information you want on your chart. - You have the option to use "Compact View" to further reduce "noise" and make your chart event more clean. - Open source.
Some guidelines: - When current Central Pivot Range is higher than previous Central Pivot Range then the stock is in an uptrend and vice versa. - Wide Central Pivot Range usually means the stock is in a "sideways trend" and volatility is low. - Tight Central Pivot Range usually means the stock has a very low volatility and is about to explode (up or down). Switching to a higher timeframe can often give hints to what direction the stock is likely to go.
Calculations of pivot levels formula is according to book "Secrets of a Pivot Boss" by Franklin O. Ochoa. Quote from the book: "The way to make money is to make it. The way to make big money is to be right at exactly the right time."