A swing high is a local peak in price — a bar whose high is greater than the highs of the N bars immediately before and after it. The choice of N (the 'left' and 'right' look-back) controls how strict the definition is: N = 1 is a fractal, N = 3 or N = 5 is more selective.
Swing highs are the building blocks of every market-structure analysis: they define the highs that subsequent prices must break to confirm continuation, and the levels at which short stops are normally placed.
Because a swing high requires N bars to its right to confirm, it is always identified after the fact — a price that looks like a swing high in real time can still be invalidated if the next N bars print a higher high.
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With N = 3, a bar at price 52,000 is a swing high if the 3 bars before it and the 3 bars after it all printed highs below 52,000.
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Swing detection in the indicators →Termini correlati
- Struttura di mercato
Swing low
A local trough: a bar whose low is lower than the N bars on each side.
- Struttura di mercato
Higher high
A swing high that prints above the prior swing high — the signature of an uptrend.
- Struttura di mercato
Break of structure (BOS)
Price closing through a prior swing point in the direction of the existing trend.
- Struttura di mercato
Support
A price level where falling demand outpaces supply, halting or reversing declines.