How to use Anchored VWAPAn Anchored VWAP (Anchored - Volume weighted Average Price) lets you make up an idea on whether the control of the market is on side of bulls or bears. Like the traditional VWAP, it incorporates price and volume in a weighted average and can be used to identify areas of support and resistance on the chart. Just like in intraday setup, a traditional VWAP lets you gauge the control of bulls or bears on the price after the opening of the day, the Anchored VWAP (AVWAP) tells you the control of bulls or bears with respect to an important day in the past over daily or weekly chart. In other words, an AVWAP indicator ties VWAP calculations to a specific price bar chosen by the trader.
In a price reversal from the previous swing high or low, an A-VWAP tells us a general idea about the long-term (or short term based on the Anchor date) support or resistance or the price. In the attached TV screen, A-VWAP is applied over BankNifty futures (current contract in front). Here we can see that the price has taken reversals multiple times from the AVWAP.
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IRCTC, in tight zone, use AVWAP to get BUY/SELL signalAnchored volume weighted average price or simply AVWAP is a previous meaningful benchmark price on a chart chosen by traders that quantifies the average price a market has traded at through a time period, based on both volume and price. This metric is important because it provides traders with a visual into the nature of the trend and the average technical value of a stock from a defined starting point.
An anchored VWAP can thus be used to represent the ‘pain/pleasure’ limit of an average purchased share since that event, top or bottom. Anchored VWAPs turn out to be very good resistance and support lines. A confluence zone on AVWAP from top and bottom shows value area, where both buyers and sellers are in equilibrium.
IRCTC is has taken multiple resistance from AVWAP from top, but it has not resulted in selling pressure and it not trading in tight range of ~3% between both AVWAP (ie 1410-1366).
When price goes above top AVWAP (red line), one can go LONG with trailing SL based on AVWAP from bottom (green line).
Similarly as SELL would be generated when price goes above below bottom AVWAP (green line), trailing SL based on AVWAP from top (red line).