The longest timeframe you use..

[ammo]

ytd notice the 2 bubbles

 

[ammo]

60 days, the dow has short term supp about 100 pts lower,so with the shorter term,lets just say that we tag that supp on tues,you catch a 100 pt move,would be happy with that

 

[the1]

It depends on what time frame you are trading. For day trading I use the 1-min chart so my analysis is on the next highest time frame -- the 5 min chart. Naturally, I could use 2,3,4 but the 5 is the default on the platform I'm using.

For any position overnight I trade off the 60-min and/or dailies so my analysis would be the dailies and/or the weeklies

 

[dev]

Then you would choose 'weekly'.


To be clear, I'm trying to gauge the longest perspective most people have on the markets.

I always thought it would be a very short view, but this may prove to be false.
Hence my asking!

Then again, I don't know how universally true a poll on ET would be.
But hey, it beats arguing about TA.

 

[R. Raskolnikov]

90 min, intraday. Rare if I get a signal on it but I do check it late in the day.

 

[Zr1Trader]

5 millisecond jk

Yearly candles are the longest time frame I've ever looked at.

 

[athlonmank8]

Weekly.

 

[irniger]

4 hour trading forex. My stats on EURUSD, presently at 77 weeks, show 43 trades, that's one trade every 8-9 trading days producing about 500 pips/month. Other pairs are similar to trade.

I check the charts and trades about twice every day for a few minutes, looking for a signal point. All TA, no fundamental except when there is a FED or ECB happening announced. But in more than 80% of these cases, my trades are already in the right direction.

Happy trading,

Felix

 

[dev]

I was hoping for more votes, but these are still interesting.
Maybe in time there'll be more votes. And maybe posting under 'forex' was a bad idea..

.
I have to say I'm impressed by the number who use longer term.
I was expecting a heavier number on the short term, those who disregard the longer term.

 

[intervention]

Quote from the1:

It depends on what time frame you are trading. For day trading I use the 1-min chart so my analysis is on the next highest time frame -- the 5 min chart. Naturally, I could use 2,3,4 but the 5 is the default on the platform I'm using.

For any position overnight I trade off the 60-min and/or dailies so my analysis would be the dailies and/or the weeklies

Yeah of course every trader has their own trading style with different time frame and i majority use h4 and in this time frame i had earn good profit. Small time frames are also useful to generate lots of profit in a short time.