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Andrews pitchfork

Three parallel lines projected from a swing point through the midpoint of the following swing, used to frame a trend channel geometrically.

The construction takes three pivots. A median line runs from the first through the midpoint of the second and third, and parallel lines run through those two pivots, producing a fork-shaped channel projected forward.

The claimed tendency is that price gravitates toward the median line and reacts at the outer rails. In practice the pitchfork is a disciplined way to draw a trend-channel with a rule, which is a genuine improvement on freehand lines.

It remains fully dependent on which three pivots you choose, and changing any one of them redraws everything. Like all geometric tools it describes the shape of past movement; treating the projected lines as future levels assumes the trend's geometry persists, which is exactly what is in question.

Related: trend-channel, trendline, swing-high, swing-low, chart-clutter

See it drawn

Original diagrams for the ideas on this page. Illustrative, not real market data.

A range beside a trendOne chart swinging between a flat floor and ceiling, another stepping upwards inside a pair of sloping lines.Range-boundresistancesupportprice bounces between two levelsTrendingthe trend channelhigher highs and higher lowsA range has two flat edges; a trend has two sloping ones.
Range versus trend. On the left price keeps bouncing between the same floor and ceiling, which is a range. On the right each high and each low is higher than the last, inside a pair of sloping lines called a channel.

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