Thank you for reading and for the comment.

I tend to set the picture up via the daily chart and develop expectations and note key possible inflection points (or targets) and then try focus on the 5-minute chart for actual trading and management – I’m most comfortable doing that.

Although I do always have the 15 and 30 minute chart (now 1min in this environment) on the screen, I’m less interested in taking trading signals from them or trying to even guess signals. I’m more interested in seeing if there’s key resistance or some other inflection point that would halt a directional trade bias on the 5-min chart.

If there’s conflict – often there is – I’ll either trade smaller or perhaps wait until the inflection point on the higher timeframe is negated before taking entry.

I used to be so caught up in reading charts on all timeframes that there just weren’t any signals because I kept seeing so many conflicts. Ultimately, it might just be best to pick the frame that makes you the most comfortable and focus the bulk of your analysis/trading decisions on that frame and then use other frames as sort of ‘confirmation/non-confirmation’ rather than trying to analyze them deeply as well.

What do you do when the signals (doji, hammer, momentum divergence etc.) at one time-frame (e.g. 5 min) are not quite confirmed in another time-frame (e.g. 15 min or 30 min)?

Thanks a lot,

J