Don't look at low
time frame charts because even small / meaningless daily chart retraces will make you nervous and shake you out if you're fixated on them on small time frames.
Not exact matches
However, even if a break of the long - term trendline occurs, this scenario might not play out until 2015
because we are looking at a
chart of the monthly
time frame (each bar on the
chart shows an entire month of price action).
It is important to use multiple
time frames when doing your daily research and technical analysis of potential stock and ETF trades
because there are
times when one
chart timeframe indicates a completely different technical situation than another timeframe.
The underlying reason as to why lower
time frames (I consider anything under a 1 hour
chart to be a «low
time frame») have more failed signals than their higher
time frame counter parts, is
because there will be a lot more meaningless price movement on a 5 minute
chart than on a 1 hour.
That should be pretty obvious,
because there are simply less candlesticks for any given amount of
time on a higher
time frame chart.
Many traders struggle for years trying to trade lower
time frame charts, eventually they either give up all together
because they have lost too much money to bear, or they figure out that trading the higher
time frames is a necessary component to consistent trading success.
Trading off the daily
charts is the best
time frame to trade
because it filters out the «noise» of the lower
time frames while also providing you with some high - quality trade setups to trade each week.
One of the main reasons why most traders fail to make money is
because they are stuck in a cycle of over-analyzing and over-trading on lower
time frame charts.
However, signals on the lower
time frames are naturally less reliable than signals on the daily
chart because the daily
chart works to «smooth» out the noise and randomness that can occur on
time frames below it, thus showing you a more accurate picture of the market.
There's good reason for this, and that reason is mainly
because on
time frames under the daily
chart, inside bars simply grow too numerous to be worth trading.
This point is really big
because so many traders get caught up over-analyzing the 15 minute (or other low
time frame)
charts, and just generally doing all the wrong things when it comes to trading the markets.