POLL: If you trade intraday, do you use sub-one-minute charts in your trading?

If you trade intraday, do you use sub-one-minute charts in your trading?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 30.7%

  • No

    Votes: 52 69.3%
  • Total voters
    75
Quote from endsongs:

What I'm saying is if you want a 10 second chart, for example, just set up an array and store the tick value every 10 seconds of computer time or data time. You can do all the calculations on the array values. As long as the symbol you are looking at trades more than once every few seconds, you should enough data for a sub minute bar.
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Thanks. That's good to know. But I'm presently using software that allows sub-one-minute charting, so I'm okay for now.
 
Quote from wrbtrader:

...By the way, have you ever visited the offices of any institutional trading firm? I have visited several and none of the trading desks had charts up on the monitors with sub-one-minute data charts although I don't know if their data vendor had the option for such...
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No, I don't move in such lofty circles. But I'm surprised by your report that that none of the institutional trading firms you visited saw fit to use sub-one-minute charts to finesse entries. At least to the extent that they use charts to time entries. Interesting.
 
If EasySignal ever ditched the ability to chart on one-second, I would ditch them in a heartbeat. I NEEEEEEED it! As to what the alleged prose use, WTF do THEY know? Are THEY struggling to supplement paltry Social Security and corporate retirement all on their own, with barely a figurative trading pot to piss in? No! Those pussies have huge infrastructures and research departments (that's what they call insider knowledge) and junior G-Man coders to fetch their code coffee. If I showed them what I do they are so boundhide by tradition that they would think it was just entertaining squiggly lines. No! The forefront, the avante garde, the ne-plus-ultra of trading is the exclusive realm of the lone-wolf mad-dog solitary independent trader. Personally, I think it helps to be unwashed, smelly and in your week-old underwear to trade well. Their prissy preppy boy dress codes are a horrible impediment to trading success.
 
Quote from gustavokeiff:

To Respond to your Poll,

Yes I use Sub Minute Bar charts - regularly!
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Me too.
I use a 1.5 point Range chart every day. In some instances, that 1.5 point can happen in less than a minute, sometimes in 1 second.
 
Quote from Joe Doaks:

If EasySignal ever ditched the ability to chart on one-second, I would ditch them in a heartbeat. I NEEEEEEED it!
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One-second charts? I know you mentioned this in the past, but are you serious?
 
Bien sur. The market don't lollygag around. It turns on a dime at all S/R. But first ya gotta know where that is to reckonnize it. Mais, "Ne reviens pas un chat qui dort." Just asking the question gives something away. That is why I supported you, because now everyone will know one second is a joke. It must be, if Professor Doaks advocates it: "Doaks must get awful sore strokin' it to a one-second beat.".
 
I am a mister of massdirection. The truth, FWIW, is that I spend most of my screen time glued to a one-second chart that has all the relevant S/R near the current price displayed on it. Plus four critical market internals arrayed below it. If I couldn't chart one second I would be blind, because I can't see all the shit I want to see on a one-minute chart. As backup situational awareness, I have three one minute charts running, each showing pieces of what the one second shows.
 
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