They've got some idea in their minds about day trading and they all seem to want to look at short
time frame charts before focusing on the daily chart.
With so many altcoin markets breaking above descending triangles and rallying to test the 0.236 % fibonacci retracement areas, many analysts are waiting for the markets to pull back and produce a higher low on larger
time frame charts before proclaiming that the first altcoin season of 2018 is indeed kicking off.
Not exact matches
It uses the hourly
chart to assess the intraday trend
before trading in the five - minute
time -
frame.
Before i was so obsessed with staring at the
chart on 1 hour
time frame but my first monthly profit on a $ 5000 account was $ 600, and it came when i traded a daily
chart fakey on GBPJPY, leaving the trade for 4 days and my profit was hit.
By understanding this fact now, hopefully
before you have lost much money in the market, you can begin to focus your
time and energy on the higher
time frames and avoid the struggle and frustration that comes with trying to analyze the noise of lower
time frame forex
charts.
There are many false signals on lower
time frames and so you have to know how to properly trade the daily
charts before you can understand how to properly trade the lower
time frames.
There can be long strings of inside bars on a 4 hour or 1 hour
chart before a breakout for example, and trying to trade them will most likely cause you a lot of frustration due to all the false breaks that can occur on those
chart time frames.
There are good signals on lower
time frames like the 4 hr and 1 hr
chart, but you need to master the daily
chart before you can have any chance at successfully trading the
time frames below it.
In the weekly AUDUSD
chart below, we can clearly see how useful and important it is to look at the weekly
chart before drilling down to lower
time frames.
If the entry is based on a higher
time frame like the 4 hour
chart, the trader may wish to hold fire and zoom into a 5 or 10 minute
chart and wait until price closes above (below) point B on the lower
time frame before buying (selling).
Just like you need a strong foundation to build a house, you need a strong foundation to become a successful trader, and learning to trade on the daily
charts before going lower in
time frame will help you build that foundation.