Pivot Point Calculator
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Standard pivots, Central Pivot Range and Camarilla levels from the previous session's high, low and close — with the CPR width read that most calculators leave out.
Free · no sign-up · by Rohit Singh (Mr. Chartist) · Updated 2026-08-25
Enter the previous session's high, low and close. The high must be at or above the low — pivots are derived from a completed bar, so all three come from the same session.
Pivot points are the previous session compressed into a handful of prices. Take yesterday's high, low and close, average them, and you have the pivot — a rough consensus of where value sat. The support and resistance levels around it are simple reflections of yesterday's range projected onto today. No opinion, no fitting, nothing to tune: the same three inputs always give the same levels, which is exactly why they work as shared reference points. Enough people watch them that they matter partly because people watch them.
The Central Pivot Range is the part Indian intraday traders actually use, and it is the part global pivot calculators tend to omit. Instead of a single pivot line, CPR gives a band — the pivot, a bottom line at the midpoint of yesterday's bar, and a top line reflected through the pivot. Price above the band, below it, or oscillating inside it is a fast read on which side is in control.
What almost nothing tells you is what the WIDTH of that band means, which is the most useful thing about it. A narrow CPR says the previous session had little disagreement about value; that compression tends to resolve into a trending day. A wide CPR says the opposite — value was spread out, and rotational, rangebound trade is more likely. It is a statement about the market's character for the day, not about direction, and it is the reason this calculator reports the width as a percentage rather than leaving you to eyeball it.
The formula
Pivot (PP) = (High + Low + Close) ÷ 3
R1 = (2 × PP) − Low S1 = (2 × PP) − High
R2 = PP + (High − Low) S2 = PP − (High − Low)
CPR: BC = (High + Low) ÷ 2 TC = PP + (PP − BC)- High / Low / Close
- All three from the SAME completed previous session. Mixing timeframes — yesterday's high with last week's close — produces levels that describe nothing.
- PP
- The pivot. The session's rough consensus of value, and the line the rest are built from.
- BC / TC
- Bottom and top of the Central Pivot Range. BC is the midpoint of the previous bar; TC is that value reflected through the pivot. Either can be the higher of the two — the calculator sorts them.
- R1–R3 / S1–S3
- Projected resistance and support. They are reference levels where reactions are common, not predictions that price will stop there.
A worked example, from a real published setup
Take a session that closed with a high of ₹1,050, a low of ₹1,000 and a close of ₹1,040 — a bar that finished near its top.
- 1Find the pivot(1,050 + 1,000 + 1,040) ÷ 3 = ₹1,030. That is the day's reference value.
- 2Project the first levelsR1 = (2 × 1,030) − 1,000 = ₹1,060. S1 = (2 × 1,030) − 1,050 = ₹1,010.
- 3Build the CPRBC = (1,050 + 1,000) ÷ 2 = ₹1,025. TC = 1,030 + (1,030 − 1,025) = ₹1,035. The range runs ₹1,025 to ₹1,035.
- 4Read the widthThe band is ₹10 wide against a ₹1,030 pivot — about 0.97%, an average width. It offers no strong prior for the day, so the opening behaviour carries the read instead.
Pivot ₹1,030, CPR ₹1,025–₹1,035, first levels ₹1,060 and ₹1,010. Had the same range produced a band under about 0.5% of the pivot, the compression would have argued for a trending rather than a rotational day.
How to read the answer
- Price holding above the CPR through the session favours the upside; holding below it favours the downside; repeatedly crossing back and forth means neither side is in control and the levels are being used as a range, not a trend.
- Narrow CPR suggests a trending day, wide CPR suggests a rangebound one. Neither tells you which direction — that comes from structure, from the trend the session sits inside, and from what price does at the open.
- Levels are zones, not lines. Price reacting a few rupees either side of R1 is R1 working normally. A level that is sliced through without a pause was never the relevant level for that session.
- Pivots are derived, not discovered. They carry no information that is not already in yesterday's high, low and close — their value is that many participants are watching the same arithmetic, which makes the levels self-reinforcing rather than predictive.
- Camarilla's H3 and L3 are the levels most often used for fade entries, and H4/L4 for breakout reads. They come from the same range with different multipliers — they are a different lens on one session, not independent confirmation of the standard pivots.
Where the stop actually comes from
Pivots are a context tool, not a setup. This site's method reads structure first — the pattern, its breakout level and its invalidation — and pivots are useful where they coincide with that structure rather than as a reason to trade on their own. A breakout level that also sits at R1, or a pattern's invalidation that lines up with S1, is a level two independent methods agree on. A pivot floating in the middle of a range with no structural meaning is just a number the arithmetic produced.
Frequently asked questions
The pivot is the average of the previous session's high, low and close: (H + L + C) ÷ 3. Resistance and support are reflections of that range around the pivot — R1 = (2 × PP) − Low, S1 = (2 × PP) − High, then R2 = PP + (H − L) and S2 = PP − (H − L).
Central Pivot Range is a three-line band rather than a single pivot: the pivot itself, a bottom line (BC) at the midpoint of the previous bar, and a top line (TC) which is the pivot reflected through BC. Where price sits relative to that band is a quick read on intraday control.
A narrow CPR means the previous session had little disagreement about value. That compression more often resolves into a trending day than a rangebound one. It is a read on the day's likely character, not its direction — a narrow CPR precedes strong down days as readily as strong up days.
There is no universally 'good' width, only narrow relative to the instrument. As a working guide this calculator treats under roughly 0.5% of the pivot as narrow and over about 1.2% as wide. Compare a stock against its own recent CPRs rather than against another stock.
They are three lenses on the same session, not three independent signals, so stacking them does not give you confirmation. Standard pivots are the most widely watched; CPR is favoured by Indian intraday traders for its width read; Camarilla's tighter H3/L3 suit fade entries. Pick one and learn how your instrument respects it.
The arithmetic is instrument-agnostic — feed it the index's previous high, low and close. Index levels are widely watched, which is part of why reactions occur there at all. Note that indices gap more readily on overnight global cues, and a large gap can render the previous session's levels irrelevant for the day.
They are designed around a single previous session, so they are primarily an intraday tool. For swing trading, weekly or monthly pivots exist — feed the tool the previous week's or month's high, low and close instead of the previous day's.
Written By
Rohit Singh
Mr. Chartist
With 14+ years of experience in Indian financial markets, Rohit Singh (Mr. Chartist) is a SEBI Registered Research Analyst, Amazon #1 bestselling author, and the founder of Investology — a premium trading ecosystem trusted by a 1.5 Lakh+ strong community across India.
This tool performs arithmetic on figures you enter and applies general risk-management conventions. It is educational: it does not recommend any security, direction or price, and it cannot account for your circumstances. Registration granted by SEBI, membership of BASL and certification from NISM in no way guarantee performance or assure returns. Markets carry risk — read all related documents carefully before investing.