Sunday / March 7, 2021 / 7:50 PM PST
I no longer regard the four-hour price range as the foundation on which price action is built (as the quote in the previous post states). I now view this role as belonging to the eight-hour baseline, but only at the intraday level. Within a swing trading context, I see this job as being filled by the six-day trend.
A related (recently made) observation is that trades executed when candlesticks are painting at the edge of the "wrong" side of the six-day price range are almost always guaranteed to be profitable. (Reversals off 12-day temporal support/resistance levels ain't bad either.) But because this does not happen very often, I checked to see if a currency pair painting a mis-colored daily candlestick within the six-day trend might also have this kind of potential.
Usually, only one mis-candlestick is formed. But sometimes, there are two, and in some rare cases, I even counted three. So, how is one to know when rates are reversing to realign with the slope of the dominant trend?
Dropping down to a one-hour chart, I found the day-to-day baseline to be too lagging. As one might expect, it is the eight-hour baseline that signals the change back to the six-day bias, as confirmed by the 16-hour baseline. These measures can be consulted in conjunction with the 12-hour and 24-hour temporal support and resistance levels to paint an instructive picture on when to enter and exit positions following a one-, two-, or three-day pullback in the six-day trend.
However, if the eight-hour baseline maintains its trajectory, reversals off the 12-hour temporal support/resistance levels are where to find intraday trade opportunities, as conveyed by the 90-minute baseline. (The two-hour baseline was previous consulted for validation, but it is just a tad bit lagging. And though the 40-minute baseline is still regarded as a key measure, it is nonetheless just a tiny bit too sensitive to price fluctuations.)