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How to Correctly Use Time Frames When Trading

April 18th, 2010 admin No comments

Welcome to the exciting world of technical analysis (more like technical confusion for some when you starting out)…

Knowing how to use Time frames effectively are a very important part of a traders arsenal and believe me there is an order to this… let me explain, to start off with, you must have a trading time frame that you stick to, in other words you always use this to enter your trades, lets say that this is a 10 minutes chart.

There are two basic and very important requirements that must apply here- the first one is you must look at two or more higher time frames to determine the major move / trend, in other words this should prevent you from trading against the major move or trend on your 10 minute time frame.

The second one – is before you decide to place your trade on the 10 minute chart, you must look at a lower time frame for confirmation and timing of the entry.. a classical example from my trading experience is that of a “retracement ” (lets suppose in this example, we are looking at an uptrending market) on a 10 minute trending chart the “retracement” will be be confirmed, and will show as an “oversold signal” on a 5 minute trading chart.

In other words the 5 minute chart has confirmed that this is a retracement and the up trend will continue (with the highest possible probability)!

Take a peek at my web site link in the resource box below for more of an insight on time frames and trading strategies

If you feel that you definitely have a need to learn clear trading strategies, then take a look at my web site http://www.chart-my-trade.com/stockmarketeducation.html here I demonstrate simple but powerful trading techniques using text, pictures and lots of video content

Good luck and success in your trading!

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