Is it possible to have a system that works with 3min charts but not 2min charts?

[IronFist]

Meaning using 3 min charts makes you profitable but using 2 min charts makes you unprofitable.

Would this mean you have a crappy system, or a very fine-tuned system?

 

[Bernoulli]

No, it is not robust. And in case, you don't know what that implies, here is one person's idea:

http://www.michaelcovel.com/archives/000021.html

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from Bernoulli:

No, it is not robust. And in case, you don't know what that implies, here is one person's idea:

http://www.michaelcovel.com/archives/000021.html

is trend following a "robust" system?

 

[Hombre]

Quote from IronFist:

Meaning using 3 min charts makes you profitable but using 2 min charts makes you unprofitable.

Would this mean you have a crappy system, or a very fine-tuned system?

2 or 3 min time frame makes no difference for a good system. 1 and 5 min does. Signals will be quite different

 

[IronFist]

Two min is too choppy. Three min is just right. I should try four.

Ok, keep in mind this is for my latest "system" that I came up with. I'm sure some backtesting will render it useless anyway.

 

[Nattdog]

if trading on that small a time fraim, you should be using tick data and streaming prices to test/trade, not chart signals. also paying almost zero commisions.

 

[hoodooman]

Obviously, you are talking about daytrading and in that case you are looking at only one piece of the puzzle. There are at least three more parts, that I know of, which are more important.

 

[brownsfan019]

2 min vs 3 min may produce different signals based on how you are trading, but I would guess that the difference in performance would not be terribly different.

 

[T280]

I'll let you know in 4 minutes

 

[HolyGrail]

I can't even imagine a signal that would work on a two minute chart that would fail on a three minute chart. If it fails that quickly I would presume it wasn't much of a system. If a signal works it should work under all time frames.