1. It is a composite price of an equity with a quarterly earnings report. The price line attempts to indicate the most important price for the release of earnings of that company. Only companies that have quarterly earnings will be able to have Key Earnings Levels. Indexes, commodities or other futures and crypto markets will not have these lines available.
After the earnings release (aka "ER"), the stock will tend to be supported by the price of the Key Earnings Level (KEL). If the stock is NOT supported at the KEL, then you can assume the stock is under distribution and one could further assume the earnings report was not accepted well by the market and the stock will likely continue to be sold in the future until the KEL no longer stops the advance of the stock.
2. The Earnings Level is designed to be plotted on the DAILY time frame only, and not the weekly or monthly time frames. It is also not designed for the hourly or any time other than daily.
3. Earnings Levels seem to be useful for a long period of time, perhaps up to a year or more based on the observations that I have done since 2012-2014 when I created the concept. I designed the software to allow you to advance the line forward in time by periods of 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months. The levels could last longer and you could add a "horizontal ray" at each earnings level so that it extends indefinitely into the future.
4. There are many additional uses of KEL's that include a combined KEL for an index, such as the DJIA, SP500 or any other basket of stocks if you combine all of the stocks KEL's together to form a market support/resistance level. I have published this research here at TradingView under the DJI DJIA symbol.
5. The concept behind this EARNINGS RELEASE is to also see HOW VOLATILE a stock is on the day before, day of and day after the EARNINGS are released as a gauge of uncertainty in the stock. The larger the range of the stock price on an EARNINGS report, the more varied the opinions are of investors and the more uncertain analysts are on the valuation of the company or its future outlook. Volatility is an important concept for risk management in a stock and understanding how volatile a stock is on the 4 most important days of the year for any stock will help any investor understand more deeply about the risk of the stock itself.
6. I comment on stocks using the earnings levels concepts in chat room Key Hidden Levels here at TradingView for many years now. I am eager to hear your comments and success with this tool and others and hope you can pass it along to others to help them be informed too.
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Updated for new pinescript definition of "earnings".
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Key Earnings Levels are now extended into the future for easy viewing and the last 4 Key Earnings Levels are bolder and more visible than older Key Earnings Levels.
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Added fundamental data to the corner of the chart for quick reference.
@timwest I would love to get access to the Key Hidden Levels indicators I had in the past. No idea how I can do this with the new trading view rules. Is it possible?
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@ProMi, Access is free now! Enjoy! It's been a paid indicator for more than 5 years and now it is free. Time to make sure everyone has the right tools to succeed!
@timwest I would love to get access to the Key Hidden Levels indicators I had in the past. No idea how I can do this with the new trading view rules. Is it possible?
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@stvkro, I hope you are enjoying "Earnings Levels" like you had in the past. Hope investing is going well.
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@timwest, thanks for the outreach. I have not been able to use them - they have been locked as invite only. i know i sent you $$ but they never got unlocked all the way. If you can add me to your invite only Exhaustion/, UDIO and HighV (others?) that would be great.
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@timwest the script is not working. Can you please provide me access to it? Thanks
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@PR2, The script should be working now. The definition of "earnings" changed in PineScript and the code is updated now.