Pivot Scoreboard [AFD]**How many times has price tested R1 this session — and did it hold or break each time?**
If you trade off pivots, you already know where the levels are. What you don't have is their record. Was this the second test of S1, or the fifth? Has the CPR held the last three times price came back to it, or is it starting to give way? Every pivot tool on the shelf draws the same lines and then goes quiet — so you end up trading levels with no memory, where the first test and the fifth look exactly alike.
**Pivot Scoreboard keeps the record** . For the current period's pivot ladder and Central Pivot Range, it counts **how many times price has tested each level**, and whether each test **held** (price closed back on the side it came from) or **broke** (price closed through). The market draws the lines; this one records what happened at them.
### Why it matters###
A level nobody has tested is just a line on a chart. A level price has tested four times and held four times is one the market is actively defending — and the day it finally breaks, that's a change you had no way to see when every touch looked the same. The count is the context: it tells you whether a level is being respected or worn down, this period, on this symbol. It is a plain description of what has already happened — never a prediction, and never a signal to act.
### At a glance###
###Capability - What you get ###
**Touch scoreboard** A per-level count of tests this period — on the level's label (`R1 ·3`) and in the card
**Held / broke split** For each core level, how many of those tests held versus broke |
**Nine pivot formulas** Switch the whole ladder between nine conventions (table below) |
**Central Pivot Range** The TC/BC balance band, kept on the floor-pivot basis whichever formula you pick
**Five anchors** Daily · Weekly · Monthly · Quarterly · Yearly — or Auto, which picks the shortest sensible one
**Five neutral alerts** CPR entry, CPR exit up, CPR exit down, first R1 test, first S1 test — all on confirmed closes
**Location read** demoted line still names where price sits right now (secondary to the score) |
**Appearance** Ten palettes, per-zone custom colours, an optional active-zone glow, configurable labels and card
### Nine pivot formulas, one ladder###
Trade the convention you already use — the scoreboard counts touches on whichever levels it draws. "Tiers" is how many resistance/support steps each formula defines above and below the pivot.
### Formulas ###
**Floor Pivots** *(default)* // PP = (H + L + C) / 3; R/S from 2·PP
**Fibonacci** // R/S at 0.382 / 0.618 / 1.0 × range, off PP
**Woodie** // Weights the period's open: PP = (H + L + 2·Open) / 4
**Classic** // R/S at PP ± 1 / 2 / 3 × range
**DM** // A conditional sum keyed to prior open vs close
**Camarilla** // Close ± 1.1·range ÷ {12, 6, 4, 2}, plus a wide 5th tier
**Frank Dilernia** // R/S at ½ / 0.618 / 1.0 × range, off PP
**Shadow Trader** // The floor-pivot tiers (its own published basis)
**ACD Method** // PP ± the distance from PP to the H/L midpoint
The **Central Pivot Range** stays on the floor-pivot basis whichever formula you choose, so the balance band is a stable reference and does not shift when you switch lenses.
### How a test is scored###
The ladder is built from the *prior* completed period's high, low and close:
```
PP = (prior high + prior low + prior close) / 3
R1 = 2 × PP − prior low S1 = 2 × PP − prior high
CPR: BC = (prior high + prior low) / 2 ; TC = 2 × PP − BC (sorted)
```
Then, for each drawn level, on every **confirmed** bar:
**Touched** — the bar's range includes the level (low ≤ level ≤ high).
**Test** — counted when a bar touches a level the *previous* confirmed bar did not. This "leading edge" rule means a level price hugs for five bars counts **once**, not five times.
**Held / broke** — *held* when the bar closes back on the side it approached from (a rejection); *broke* when it closes through (an acceptance).
**Reset** — counts return to zero at each new period, because the levels are redrawn from the new prior high/low/close.
These are **descriptions of what the chart has already done** — counts of observed touches — not predictions, signals, or trade instructions. A high test count is a record, not a probability.
### How it differs from Pivot Matrix + Zones ###
The account also publishes `Pivot Matrix + Zones `, a pivot **workbench** — compare formulas across packs side by side, score confluence, read the current location. Pivot Scoreboard is a different job: **one ladder, and a running tally of how price has interacted with it.** They are complements, not versions of each other — run whichever fits the question you're asking.
### The visuals###
- **Levels and CPR band.** PP is the strongest line; the CPR is a neutral balance band; further tiers fade with distance. Each level's label carries its test count.
- **Scoreboard card.** The core levels — R1, PP, S1 and the CPR boundaries — with their tests and held/broke split; hover the header for a note on the `3 (1/2)` format. Below them a demoted **Now** line (the current location, its cell tinted the zone's colour with automatically legible text), the furthest tier reached this period, and the anchor in use.
- **Active-zone glow (optional).** The zone price is currently in can be filled with a soft gradient that follows price. It is secondary — the scoreboard is the point — and can be turned off.
### How to use it###
- Leave **Anchor** on Auto and it picks the shortest sensible higher timeframe, or set it directly. The anchor must be **strictly above** your chart timeframe.
- Use **Map depth** — Core shows R1/S1 and the CPR; Extended adds the outer tiers, each with its own count.
- Everything else (formula, palette, custom colours, labels, the card, the glow) is a setting — configure it once to taste.
### What it deliberately does not do###
It does not compare formulas side by side, score confluence, or rank anything. It draws one ladder and keeps score on it. It makes **no** accuracy, reliability, profitability, probability or future-result claim; a test count describes the past, not the future. Educational chart context, not financial advice.
### Data, timeframes and repainting###
- Prior high/low/close is requested from the symbol's exchange-default feed, offset by one completed period **and** with `lookahead_on` — the standard anti-repaint form — so the current, still-forming period never enters the ladder. Every test and event is evaluated on **confirmed bar closes**; nothing is back-placed.
- The above describes the **mechanism**. Confirm the behaviour with the bar-replay tool on your own chart and timeframe before relying on it.
- **Yearly is the highest anchor**, so a chart at or above 12 months has no valid anchor and the script says so.
- **Standard time-based candles only.** Heikin Ashi, Renko, Range and similar are rejected, because the tests read chart OHLC.
- A running alert keeps the inputs, symbol and timeframe it was created with — recreate an alert after changing any of them.
### Originality and credit###
Other pivot tools plot levels; this one turns a single ladder into a **running record of how price has tested it** — test counts with held/broke per level, reset each period — deliberately restricted to descriptive context. Open source under the **Mozilla Public License 2.0**. © Auction Foundry LLC.
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