Enter the high, low and close of the last day, week or month to get traditional, classic, Fibonacci, Woodie, Camarilla and DeMark pivot points side by side. Then see daily, weekly and monthly pivots on real bitcoin, ether, XRP and solana prices from the Bybit exchange, and how often real prices reached each level.
Enter the high, low and close of the previous period.
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StockCharts sums up the idea: "Pivot Points use the prior period's high, low, and close to estimate future support and resistance levels." It also notes their origin: "Pivot Points were originally used by floor traders to set key levels." The calculator uses the six methods in TradingView's help center, where H, L and C are the previous period's high, low and close:
An example: with a high of 110, a low of 100 and a close of 105, the traditional pivot is 105, R1 is 110, S1 is 100, R2 is 115 and S2 is 95. The Fibonacci R1 is 108.82 and the Camarilla R3 is 107.75. Type your own prices into the calculator, or pick a coin and step through real days, weeks and months below it.
The newest daily pivots in this data are for September 27, 2026 (UTC), from the candle of September 26: a high of $84,418.10, a low of $83,720.30 and a close of $84,376.00. That gives a traditional pivot of $84,171.47, R1 at $84,622.63, S1 at $83,924.83, R2 at $84,869.27 and S2 at $83,473.67. The levels sit close together because September 26 was a quiet day: its range of $697.80 was 0.8% of the close, and only 1.3% of days in the data had a smaller one.
Longer periods give wider levels. The weekly pivots for the week of September 21, from the week of September 14, put P at $79,293.33, R1 at $83,731.67 and S1 at $76,691.97. The monthly pivots for September 2026, from August, put P at $74,053.33, R1 at $85,926.27 and S1 at $66,638.57.
The study counts, for every day since November 15, 2018, whether the day's own high or low reached the levels set by the day before. Over 2,873 days of traditional pivots, bitcoin's high reached R1 on 41.2% of days and its low reached S1 on 40.3%. R2 was reached on 19.8% and S2 on 19.6%, R3 on only 9.1%. The day traded through the pivot itself on 79.9% of days, and on 28.8% it reached neither R1 nor S1.
The method matters more than the coin. Camarilla levels hug the close, so its R3 was reached on 61.9% of days and S3 on 62.7%, while the Fibonacci R1, at 38.2% of the range above the pivot, was reached on 54.0%. For ether, XRP and solana the traditional R1 was reached on 38.2% to 42.9% of days. On weekly pivots bitcoin reached R1 in 44.6% of weeks, and on monthly pivots in 48.9% of months, against 29.3% for S1. Over those months bitcoin rose from $3,691.00 at the end of December 2018 to $78,511.50 at the end of August 2026.
In these counts, the levels reached most often are simply the ones closest to the prior close. Reaching R1 says nothing about whether the price then turned, broke through or kept going. StockCharts puts it plainly: "The key is to watch price action closely when these levels come into play." The levels can serve as reference points, for example when planning a stop loss and take profit, not as forecasts.
Practice spotting levels by eye in the support and resistance practice game, read support and resistance explained, or measure swings with the Fibonacci retracement calculator.
Educational, not financial advice. Pivot points are arithmetic on past prices. They do not predict where the price will turn or recommend buying or selling anything.
Take the high, low and close of the previous period. The traditional pivot is P = (H + L + C) / 3. R1 = 2 x P - L and S1 = 2 x P - H; R2 = P + (H - L) and S2 = P - (H - L). With a high of 110, a low of 100 and a close of 105, P is 105, R1 is 110 and S1 is 100.
Traditional and Fibonacci pivots share the same P. Traditional levels come from the high and low, Fibonacci levels from 0.382, 0.618 and 1 times the range. Camarilla levels are built around the close with 1.1 x the range divided by 12, 6, 4 and 2, so they sit much closer to the price.
The open of the new period, not the previous one: P = (H + L + 2 x new open) / 4. TradingView's weekly setting, for example, "uses the current week's open and the previous week's open, high, low, and close". DeMark uses the previous period's open to decide which formula applies.
The newest daily pivots in this data are for September 27, 2026: traditional P $84,171.47, R1 $84,622.63 and S1 $83,924.83, from the September 26 candle. Pick a coin and a timeframe in the tool for the others.
For bitcoin's traditional daily pivots since November 2018, the day's high reached R1 on 41.2% of days and the low reached S1 on 40.3%. On 28.8% of days it reached neither.
It depends on the chart. StockCharts pairs intraday charts with daily pivots and notes that "Pivot Points for daily charts use the prior month's data." Weekly and monthly pivots are wider and change less often.