Swing High
A candle or bar whose high is higher than both the preceding and the following candle's highs — a local price peak.
A swing high is a pivot point: a bar flanked on both sides by bars with lower highs. It marks a local peak where price momentarily ran out of buying pressure and turned down. Swing highs are the building blocks of trend structure — a sequence of rising swing highs defines an uptrend; falling swing highs mark a downtrend.
Swing highs become resistance once broken. The breach of a prior swing high is often used as the confirmation trigger for a breakout entry.
Related Terms
Breakout
Price moving decisively above a key resistance level or the top of a range, often on expanding volume.
BeginnerFibonacci Extension
Fibonacci-derived levels projected beyond a swing's origin to identify potential profit targets after a breakout or trend continuation.
IntermediateHigher High
A peak that exceeds the prior swing high — one half of the structural definition of an uptrend.
BeginnerLower High
A rally peak that fails to reach the prior swing high — the second structural requirement of a defined downtrend.
BeginnerResistance
A price level where selling pressure has historically halted or reversed an upward move.
BeginnerSwing Low
A candle or bar whose low is lower than both the preceding and the following candle's lows — a local price trough.
BeginnerTrend
The persistent directional bias of price over a defined timeframe — up, down, or sideways.
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