Quote from Surdo:
Generally Daily, Hourly!
The best trades I make are the ones sitting on my hands, 95% of losing traders are losing due to overtrading.
I could not agree more with the following post.
Quick charts are just one level above randomness, overtrading is a big reason why people fail in this business. They think the market is like an ATM machine giving away free dollars every 3 minutes time and all they must do is just grab the free dollars so they can get rich quickly, such nonsense really.
It does not work like that, the good opportunities are rare, and they just don't happen everyday, sometimes you will be lucky if they occur twice a week but when they occur they work like magic, it's up to the trader to pay their dues and find them on their own, because frankly no one is going to teach you them for free. Best way to overcome this is to expand the instruments you trade, it does help to learn one instrument well at first, but later on this could lead to overtrading. I say do what Surdo suggested, trade 3-4, use larger fractals and wait for that signal, whatever that is
Patience is one of the best virtues in trading never ever forget that, don't predict, don't talk about what you don't know, just trade your signals according to plan. Find the signals, trade the plan and be happy.