different time frames

Quote from BSAM:

Why not use the time frame which gives you the most consistent positive results?

Why not drop "indicators" and learn to read price action/volume?
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There are 2 steps...

1) Do what BSAM says and you'll have a solid core that you can build on if you want to try indicators later.

2) Once you have developed a trading style on price and volume, then do what James Pond says.

The 1st step is hard and the 2nd harder as you will see reading posts on ET.
 
Quote from mcteague:

Like many novice traders, I am often distressed when the chart and indicators show completely different things depending on the time frame use. How do experienced traders resolve that? When for example there is a strong bearish trend in the daily, but your 10min says oversold.
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If you're using two different time frames...don't trade when the time frames are in conflict.

Simply, only take trades that support the price action on both charts. For example, if you have a bearish trend on the daily...wait for short signals on the 10min charts.

Easy solution for those that trade via multiple time frames. :cool:
 
Quote from mcteague:

Like many novice traders, I am often distressed when the chart and indicators show completely different things depending on the time frame use. How do experienced traders resolve that? When for example there is a strong bearish trend in the daily, but your 10min says oversold.
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Smaller time frames compose every movement witnessed in larger time frames. There is no such thing as "oversold." What's over sold in one time frame, can be overbought in another. You have to develop an understanding of the relative differences between price exhaustion in multiple time frame, in order to know what to expect price to do next.

Start with ATR. As a novice trader, you need to get up to speed on why ATR is important. It measures the true dynamic magnitude of each time frame, no matter how you slice your bars of data (candles). Whether you look at non-standard 3 minute bars, or 8 hour bars, ATR tells you what price is doing in each time frame regardless of the interval.

You must also develop an imagination for what most people don't yet understand: The Inverse ATR. That's simply the ATR to come. Instead of using trends in "price" to determine the next move, start trying to develop an understanding of the "trend" in magnitudes contained within each bar and its ATR value. This will help you see the likelihood of that 10 minute bar reaching a level of price exhaustion and its location within the daily bar's Inverse ATR value (that anticipated movement in the daily bar that has not yet happened).

You can develop a whole new array of indicators based on this one simple concept.
 
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