Tuesday | July 5, 2022 | 1:35 PM PST
Since I have ceased making any significant changes to my charts, let me go ahead and summarize the views I hold at present...
If there is any measure I would characterize as "noise," it would have to be the one-minute trend, since I don’t think it is possible for a
retail market participant to trade it profitably via any standard Forex trading platform.
However, price movement DOES become actionable once it reaches the three-minute mark, which tends to move in tandem with the five-minute baseline, plotted alongside it due to its often being prone to the influence of more insignificant price fluctuations.
These two measures are used in deciding when to enter positions, with the idea being to do so as they reverse direction on a course that is realigned with the trajectory of the ten-minute measure, especially if the slope of the latter matches the slope of the 20-minute baseline.
(The ten-minute baseline is the lowest "actionable" day trading measure, recognizing reversals in the intraday trend as they are unfolding. However, it is susceptible to head fakes, sometime suggesting that an asset is changing direction only to have it fail to follow through. The 20-minute baseline does not fall victim to such "false positives." But unfortunately, it is behind the curve it terms of picking up reversals in a timely fashion. So then, it is best to use the two of them together to recognize and then verify when the intraday trend is changing its sentiment.)
The other way to verify in which direction price is headed and whether there is enough volatility in the market to justify participation is to look at the relative positions and widths of the 10-minute, 48-minute, 2-hour and 8-hour temporal support/resistance channels; and where price is located within these measures.
(See Post #802 for the role played by the 40-minute price range envelope, and Post #805 for the role played by the 2⅔-hour price range envelope.)