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Swing Highs & Swing Lows

Swing highs and swing lows are the building blocks of market structure: the pivot points where price turns. This article explains how to identify them (a swing high has lower highs on both sides; a swing low has higher lows on both sides), how the sequence of swings defines an uptrend or downtrend, why they are the reference points for break-of-structure, liquidity and support/resistance, and why their identification depends on timeframe and lookback.

12 min readPublished 26 June 2026

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