How many time frames do you use ?

[ADX_trader]

Either system traders or traders using TA to make decisions.

How many different time frames do you use ?

 

[bobcathy1]

two for daytrades.....1 and 13 min
two for swing trades....13 and daily

 

[stockerup]

Quote from bobcathy1:

two for daytrades.....1 and 13 min
two for swing trades....13 and daily

bobcathy, what do you see as the advantage of using a 13 min.
verses a 15 or 10?

Thanks

 

[momotrdr]

1 - 3 - 5 -10 -30 - 60 -min on Pacific Standard Time


100 & 200 Tick Bar charts on Exchange Time

 

[wally_]

in 3 mechanical systems I use, but they differ not only by the time frames.

 

[prox]

Scalping - 1 and 3 min

System trading - 3 min

 

[profitseer]

I use the 1 min, and then when the page is not long enough to cover back to the open, I switch to 2 min, and then 3, then 4, and finally towards the end of the day I am on the 5 min chart.

If I oversleep, sometimes I only need to go up to the 3 min. Because I don't care what happened before I got here.

Sometimes I blow the chart up so only 7 candles are showing, and I pretend I'm a Buddhist monk trying to interpret some esoteric symbolism.

The first candle is the Father, the the next one is the mother, and they have 4 children, and the current candle is the grandchild, and we don't know yet how he is going to turn out.

 

[bobcathy1]

Quote from stockerup:




bobcathy, what do you see as the advantage of using a 13 min.
verses a 15 or 10?

Thanks

Supposedly it gets you in earlier on the trend. For the way I use it as a backdrop to the 1 minute, 15 would probably be fine. Just something I do from the 3 "experts" I follow.

 

[DblArrow]

1 min for scalping the ES.

2 and 4 for trading the ZB an ZN. Why? why not!!

Looking forward to trying some tick charts.

Make 'em pretty, Chris

 

[H2O]

3 in 1 chart (Using FibonacciTrader)