# Pivot Strength Confirms pivot highs and lows by the bar-count rule (by default a high must exceed 10 bars to its left and stay unexceeded for 10 bars to its right) and prints the price at each confirmed pivot. Dotted traces expose the confirmation delay, hollow markers track provisional candidates, and a dashboard reports pivot counts, average bars per pivot, and candidate progress. - Indicator in the LuxAlgo Library, by LuxAlgo, published Jun 15, 2026. - Access: free. - Concepts: [Pivot Strength](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/pivot-strength/) (primary) - Open on Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart?pineScriptCodeId=r1fgkwmvvoq1t8109tuvx2m6 - Page: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/pivot-strength/ **Pivot Strength** turns the bar-count definition of a swing point into an honest chart object: a pivot high must exceed the highs of its left-side bars and remain unexceeded through its right-side bars before a label prints, with the mirror rule for lows. The definitive clean build of [pivot strength](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/pivot-strength/) makes the cost of that rule visible: a dotted trace joins each confirmed pivot to the bar that confirmed it, Right bars later. Once confirmed, a pivot never moves. ## How to Trade the Pivot Strength? - **Confirmed labels**: filled labels carrying the pivot price are final, ready anchors for structure levels, trendlines, and stops. - **Provisional markers**: hollow counters show right-side bars printed versus required on the newest candidate; they can move or vanish until the window completes. - **Strength as a scale dial**: small settings map fine swings, large settings the major legs. The dashboard's average-bars-per-pivot row shows which scale you are reading. Three alerts fire on confirmation: pivot high, pivot low, or either. ## Pivot Strength Settings - **Highs - Left / Right** (defaults 10 and 10): bars a candidate high must exceed before it and remain unexceeded after it; Right is also the confirmation delay. - **Lows - Left / Right** (defaults 10 and 10): the mirror windows for pivot lows. - **Pivot Price Labels** (default enabled): prints the price inside each confirmed label. - **Confirmation Delay Trace** (default enabled): dotted line from each pivot to its confirming bar. - **Provisional Pivot Markers** (default enabled): hollow marker plus progress counter on current candidates. - **Show Dashboard** (default enabled, Top Right, Small): strength, delay, counts, average bars per pivot, last pivots, and candidate progress; Style inputs set colors and label size. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How does Pivot Strength differ from a ZigZag? A [ZigZag](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/zigzag/) connects swing extremes into alternating legs, emphasizing the path between turns. Pivot Strength works one level lower: it marks the raw pivots those legs are built from and exposes exactly when each became decidable, the part leg-drawing tools hide. ### Does raising the strength stop the labels from moving? Confirmed labels never move at any setting. Higher strength just confirms later. A pivot is only decidable once its full right-side window has closed, so raising Right adds exactly that many bars of delay. ### Why allow asymmetric left and right settings? The left count sets how much prior structure a bar must dominate; the right count, how much confirmation you wait for. A large left with a small right flags significant turns quickly but fails more often; the reverse waits longer for stronger proof. ## Related indicators - [Structure & Trend Dashboard](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/structure-trend-dashboard/) (Swing Structure Grammar): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/structure-trend-dashboard.md - [HTF Swing Structure Signals](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/htf-swing-structure-signals/) (Swing High/low): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/htf-swing-structure-signals.md - [Price Action Concepts](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/luxalgo-price-action-concepts/) (Swing Structure Grammar): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/luxalgo-price-action-concepts.md - [Market Structure & Fibonacci Zones + RR](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/market-structure-fibonacci-zones-rr/) (Swing Structure Grammar): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/market-structure-fibonacci-zones-rr.md - [Liquidity Sweeps](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-sweeps/) (Swing High/low): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-sweeps.md - [Liquidity Swings](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-swings/) (Swing High/low): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-swings.md - [Support & Resistance Pro Toolkit](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/support-resistance-pro-toolkit/) (Swing High/low): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/support-resistance-pro-toolkit.md - [Structural Leg Profiler](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/structural-leg-profiler/) (Zigzag Structure): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/structural-leg-profiler.md --- Source: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/pivot-strength/ (LuxAlgo Library). Free to use with attribution: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/license/