By Islam BarakaDefinitions
In plain terms
The detector compares the candidate high with both sides of its window.
Technical
H_i > max(left highs) and H_i >= max(right highs), then the separation floor must pass.
Scope
A high pivot uses intrabar high, not necessarily the highest close.
Formula
H_i > max(left highs) and H_i >= max(right highs)H_i>\max(H_{left}),\quad H_i\ge\max(H_{right})| Symbol | Meaning | Unit |
|---|---|---|
H_i | candidate high | price |
Output unit: boolean event
Examples
- A reviewer computes High Pivot on a small deterministic fixture and checks timing, units, and boundary behavior before publication.
Common misconceptions
- A high pivot uses intrabar high, not necessarily the highest close.
Concept relationships
Prerequisites
Related
Required by
- Low Pivot
- Support/Resistance Clustering
- Same-Kind Level Clustering
- Log-Price Distance
- Epsilon Basis-Point Radius
- DBSCAN Neighborhood
- DBSCAN Core Point
- DBSCAN Border Point
- DBSCAN Noise Point
- Density Reachability Chain
- Minimum Touches
- Median Cluster Level
- Cluster Bounds
- Cluster Confirmation Cutoff
- Level Cluster Revision
- Price-Bin versus Density Clustering
- Robust Trendline Fitting
- Log-Price Trendline
- Two-Point Line Hypothesis
- Consensus Inlier
- Residual Tolerance
- Maximum-Consensus Selection
- Deterministic Trendline Tie-Break
- Locked Inlier Membership
- Log-Price OLS Refit
- Trendline Slope per Bar
- Trendline Intercept
- Median Residual BPS
- Projection at Requested Index
- Minimum Inlier Rule
- Trendline Extrapolation Scope
Where this concept is used
Tutorials planned
These catalogued topics use this concept, but their complete build has not shipped yet.
- D08-F01-A01 Important
- D08-F01-A03 Prerequisite
- D08-F01-A04 Prerequisite
Evidence and governance
- Pine Script pivot techniques TradingView · official platform documentation
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: The package freezes its own equality, separation, and OHLC policies rather than claiming one universal pivot definition.
- Pine Script repainting concepts TradingView · official platform documentation
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: Platform display behavior does not establish financial usefulness or predictive value.
- scipy.signal.find_peaks SciPy · first party technical publication
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: This retrospective signal function is not itself a causal OHLC pivot detector.
- Closing Price Investor.gov · official standard
Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula
Limits: A close is not automatically an adjusted close and may vary by market session convention.
- Reviewed by
- fintech-builder-batch-011
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-09
- Next review
- 2027-08-09
- Record status
- evidence reviewed
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