Quote from Anekdoten:
If you get itchy fingers in +10 when will ever get +20 +30 ?
You get out when price action says so at least if you want to do AHG
Now if you are content with +10 that's one thing but I prefer to get out when price says so not when my mind or heart thinks so.
Anek

I understand your point. Out of curiosity, have you ever considered a sub-one-minute chart, say, a 15- or 30-second chart? Would that not also provide more info than a 1-minute chart? Of course, I'm not asking that you change your approach. (Why fix something that ain't broke?) Rather, I'm just trying to better understand your preference for an activity interval chart as compared to a time interval chart.Quote from Anekdoten:
Thunder,
A whole lot of things can happen in say a 1 minute bar, especially if the bar happens to be very long.
When using tick or volume bars especially a small size you can dissect this info and draw patterns of support and resistance compared to the longbar where I just have open close high and low. That to me is little info, I need more, I need to see what happened inside that bar. Which were the points of interest, the points of buying, selling, where the real pressure occurred. The more info the better.
In the end, it's a matter of choice. Nevertheless, I'm a much better trader when using tick/volume charts so if you cannot see the advantage I guess there really is no reason to switch. To me it's the difference between night and day.
Hope it helps.
Anek
Quote from Thunderdog:
I understand your point. Out of curiosity, have you ever considered a sub-one-minute chart, say, a 15- or 30-second chart? Would that not also provide more info than a 1-minute chart? Of course, I'm not asking that you change your approach. (Why fix something that ain't broke?) Rather, I'm just trying to better understand your preference for an activity interval chart as compared to a time interval chart.
Quote from Thunderdog:
I understand your point. Out of curiosity, have you ever considered a sub-one-minute chart, say, a 15- or 30-second chart? Would that not also provide more info than a 1-minute chart? Of course, I'm not asking that you change your approach. (Why fix something that ain't broke?) Rather, I'm just trying to better understand your preference for an activity interval chart as compared to a time interval chart.
Quote from einstein:
Anek: A continuing problem for me is deciding what to do in the following scenario: I see what I think is downtrend (2LL/2LH) but when I get my nose away from the screen it's obvious that it still qualifies as a retracement in a longer term uptrend (usually a longer 123 pattern where the low point still hasn't broken the 62% fib of the longer 123)
I realize that the longer term pattern predominates over the shorter term pattern, but that aside, any tips as how to follow and trade this type of scenario which occurs repeatedly throughout the day. Thanks for any assistance you can provide
I personally don't find them to be very useful, but here you go.Quote from Anekdoten:
T,
I have unfortunately my charting software of choice does not have them, it has been a request for so long by many TS users.
15 sec would be very nice
Anek
Quote from osho67:
Has there been any comments to the above observation. I get trapped all the time.