penetration of the support or resistance point before we can consider the action to be significant.
TRADING APPLICATIONS One of the first uses that many technicians see for this technique is in terms of breakouts, much like in using bars. The advantage in using real-body highs and lows for support and resistance is that ranges are tighter, allowing entry into a trading position earlier than might otherwise have been the case.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of this new methodology, however, is its usefulness for day trading. Most technicians use candlesticks as a day-end indicator, but this technique gives us a greater degree of depth than is necessary for day trading. Real-body support and resistance allow us to take our analysis into the shorter time frames, which in turn allows us to get better entry points for our longer-term trades.
In my own analysis, I favor trading counter to the prevailing market action when a nearby real-body support or resistance level has been crossed intraday. This means that I recommend selling when the market has broken through very recent real-body resistance, and buying when recent real-body support has been breached. This is my strategy for trading against levels that are only a few days old, and one I recommend mostly for a very short-term position (say, day trading).