However, I believe I have expanded the forecast model so that it can now be applied to more of a swing trade type of perspective as well. But in doing so, I find it necessary to separate my analysis into two distinct aspects, which I am going to label as immediate and ultimate bias, between which immediate bias (or sentiment) takes precedence.
On February 9, 2014 and May 21, 2015 I commented (on my trading blog located elsewhere) that despite my ongoing search for the best Forex trading strategy for me personally, I didn’t think I was a hapless newbie endlessly learning something new, getting excited, placing a few losing trades, getting disheartened, rejecting the entire concept as a result, and moving on to the next strategy; perpetuating a never-ending cycle of failure because of neglecting to ever put in the time and effort necessary for a given methodology to become successful.
And on October 18, 2015, I again noted this fact, because at that time I believed I had settled on a single technique, and in a sense, I had. For I cited November 2015 as the initial development of the system I was still using when I made additional modifications on February 17, 2018.
What’s different now is that my settings and parameters have become
so firmly established that this month I branched out from primarily using lower-time-frame charts to configurating and incorporating four-hour charts, and now incorporating daily charts as well.
The higher time frames inform me as to when I should not be worried about being stopped out of particular positions due to the fact that the dominant trend is still exerting the most influence and pressure, and therefore likely to turn a “bad” looking situation around back in my favor—eventually.
This prevents me from exiting positions for a loss that would have actually closed as winning trades, sooner or later, had I simply remained in them for a little bit longer, all thanks to my coordinating various time frames in a manner I never did in the past…