January 19, 2021
This paper investigates the phenomenon of support and resistance levels (SR levels) in financial time series, which act as temporary price barriers that reverses price trends. We develop a heuristic discovery algorithm for this purpose, to discover and evaluate SR levels for intraday price series. Our simple approach discovers SR levels which are able to reverse price trends statistically significantly. Asset price entering SR levels with higher number of price bounces before are more likely to bounce on such SR levels again. We also show that the decay aspect of the discovered SR levels as decreasing probability of price bounce over time. We conclude SR levels are features in financial time series are not explained simply by AR(1) processes, stationary or otherwise; and that they contribute to the temporary predictability and stationarity of the investigated price series.
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