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What Time-Frame Should You Trade?Hey Traders! One of the reason new traders don't do as well as what they first perceived is sometimes they could be trading a multitude of different things in the wrong style. That doesn't suit the way they are attempting to attack the market, or even their personality. Today I wanted to have a look into trading the different time frames, what's required? What are the pros and what the cons of each time frame? Now there's a million different ways to trade the financial markets. The time frame you're trading is one of the most important. I wanted to jump in and provide clarity for some of the newer traders that perhaps are trading the wrong market based on what they are actually trying to achieve. I see a lot of people coming into the market to earn profits (obviously) and they come in because they want time freedom, yet they all seem to gravitate towards the scalping one minute, 5 minute and 15 minute charts, which are not going to provide time freedom even when you are successful. I understand the adrenaline pumping in the intraday setups and then it can help people have and feed that get rich quick feeling that gravitates so many people to the market. But it's time we take it seriously. Let's seriously dive into the pros and the cons and analyze what's actually going to benefit you as a trader moving forward. INTRADAY Intraday trading is definitely the most frequent out of all the traders that come into the Forex market. The Forex market advertises intraday trading a lot more because the commissions and spreads are extremely affordable compared to trading other markets. Intraday traders, also known as scalpers, trade the markets on the lower timeframes, usually between the one minute and 15 minute, and trades are held throughout a day session and usually closed by the end of the day. You usually see these traders have your typical eight or nine hour window in which they sit in front of the charts and trade. There's plenty of pros to intraday trading the high frequency of trades, the great adrenaline pumping feeling, the more opportunities across a range of different markets, you hold no overnight risk and it's very easy to dodge fundamental news. You also less reliant on those one or two big winners to bring in your yearly profits. In saying that, there's also plenty of cons. Transaction costs are much higher when you're scalping. You have to incorporate spreads and commissions can sometimes eat up your profits. Mentally an emotionally, it is an extremely difficult task. You have to be able to be disciplined enough to make quick reaction decisions with money and risk on the line. As mentioned above, unlike the other trading systems and timeframes, it does require quite a lot of time and concentration throughout a trading session, which is why if you're chasing time freedom, I wouldn't recommend intraday trading. SWING Swing trading is a common way of trading, as a lot of people are able to do it part time away from whatever their main career. Swing traders trade the markets on a mid-range time frame, usually between the one hour to the four hour chart (sometimes going a little bit above). Trades are held for hours to a week and they try to profit from the larger moves in the market. The pros to swing trading? There's plenty of opportunities, plus more than enough time to sit back and thoroughly think through your analysis. The ability to make money while doing something else, which I touched on just before, you can still have your full time job and trade after hours, and then also there are much lower transaction costs compared to intraday trading, as spreads and commissions don't tend to eat up as much as you kind of aiming for those larger moves in the market. The cons? Swing trading of a sudden introduces this overnight risk. You're going to have to sleep at some point and you may have positions open during that time. That right there is a window of risk where you can not react to the market. I have also found that many people tend to lose sleep while they have open positions. Fundamental news releases start affecting your decision making. You're going to have to incorporate the economic calendar. It does require a lot more patience to be able to hold positions over long periods of time. You will have to be making decisions without your emotions affecting and changing your overall bias. LONG-TERM Finally, we start looking at our long-term investors. I call it investing because they tend to trade the markets on a higher range time frame like the daily, weekly or monthly chart. Trades are held throughout week and sometimes months trying to profit from the really large fundamental moves of the market. The pros to long term investing or trading are you do not have to watch the market in today, the lower timeframes mean nothing to your analysis which allows you to step back and think clearly. You have much fewer transactions which relates to much lower transaction costs. You have more time to think about your trades and much more time to react to different news releases or change in market bias. The constant long term trading are the very few opportunities per year. Fundamental knowledge is 100% required. There will be people that say you don't need it, but honestly I highly recommend you have a great deal of fundamental knowledge. It requires exponential amounts of patience and the ability to sit on your hands for weeks or months on end. It does require bigger account for more buying power so you can open multiple positions over long periods of time. Finally you will incur frequent losing months as you do not have many trades to bring that initial balance too profit. I hope that bought a bit of clarity to the multiple timeframe traders and where you're currently sitting. Have a look at what your goals are with actually being involved with trading. Where do you want to get to? Is the time frame you're trading is actually going to allow you to get there? If you're here as a part time trader and you'd love to have that time freedom that so many people advertise. Maybe look for the bigger time frames as you can have that time to go do whatever it is you need, and you don't need to be sitting at a computer desk. If you love intraday trading and scalping and you're willing to put in the hours of work and more or less work a nine to five type role. Your scalp trading is going to be one for you.
Education
by the5erstrading
88
AUDJPY:Intraday dip buying!AUDJPY Intraday - We look to Buy at 89.25 (stop at 88.35) Intraday signals are mildly bullish. There is scope of limited selling at the open. Support at 89.00 should stem any dips in that zone. Dip buying offers good risk/reward returns on an intraday basis. Risk/Reward would be poor to call a buy from current levels. Our profit targets will be 91.25 and 91.50 Resistance: 91.00 / 91.25 / 91.50 Support: 90.00 / 89.25 / 89.00 Please be advised that the information presented on TradingView is provided to Vantage (‘Vantage Global Limited’, ‘we’) by a third-party provider (‘Signal Centre’). Please be reminded that you are solely responsible for the trading decisions on your account. There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading. Any information and/or content is intended entirely for research, educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or consultation advice or investment strategy. The information is not tailored to the investment needs of any specific person and therefore does not involve a consideration of any of the investment objectives, financial situation or needs of any viewer that may receive it. Kindly also note that past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking or past performance statements. We assume no liability as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information and/or content provided herein and the Company cannot be held responsible for any omission, mistake nor for any loss or damage including without limitation to any loss of profit which may arise from reliance on any information supplied by Signal Centre.
Long
by VantageMarkets
NASDAQ, Big Picture analysis.Hey traders, Nasdaq has broken an important resistance at 12661, signaling the downtrend is almost over "but", tomorrow we might be in the middle of the downward for some days or maybe just 1 day. (Target Between S1-S2) The reason: The last upward had broken the resistance at 12661 and tomorrow it might start the retracement, until 11906, fib 78%. and then the prices will go higher between bands. Important if the prices break down under the 11906, the prices will go lower and it might be the continuation of a downtrend. Looking at the big picture, I have plotted in the chart, the important resistances that the price should break up, continuously bouncing between them, including the intraday pivot points band. Please check the trend, and go with the trend, bouncing and breaking in the same direction up or down is the key to confirming the trend direction. The big picture analysis will be active for a while, "but" if the prices go lower than the 11687 I might need to recalculate all the resistances levels. The market has the last word.
SKILLING:US100Short
by Bekapc
1
Bitcoin Trend Analytics May 17th - consolidate among bearsThe 30k is pulling the price back the price multiple times. We’ll see more battles here between longs and shorts. BTC is still consolidating in the downward channel - same as yesterday. The consolidation range today is $32341.38 - $27038.98, centering $29781-$30047. Both longs and shorts have rooms to operate, yet bears are still in dominance. If you long, catch the profit swiftly. If shorts, don't open too low. Safe trading, frens.
by BitMidas
Opening trades at support levels!This week was amazing, even with a very volatile market. Target 1804 was accomplished, we anticipated that movement during that day and made good profits. For now we're not looking into selling anymore, we will open small lots at the support levels. We will wait for better opportunities to enter, because definitely gold will go lower. Blue lines are support levels Green lines are resistance levels I will upload more info soon Please supporte and follow my analyses
OANDA:XAUUSDLong
by UnknownUnicorn6701322
GBPUSD: No end in sight for Cable fall!!GBPUSD Intraday - We look to Sell at 1.2400 (stop at 1.2515) Although the bears are in control, the stalling negative momentum indicates a turnaround is possible. We are trading at oversold extremes. A higher correction is expected. The bias is still for lower levels and we look for any gains to be limited. We therefore, prefer to fade into the rally with a tight stop in anticipation of a move back lower. Our profit targets will be 1.2070 and 1.2000 Resistance: 1.2500 / 1.2800 / 1.3000 Support: 1.2000 / 1.1500 / 1.1260 Please be advised that the information presented on TradingView is provided to Vantage (‘Vantage Global Limited’, ‘we’) by a third-party provider (‘Signal Centre’) . Please be reminded that you are solely responsible for the trading decisions on your account. There is a very high degree of risk involved in trading. Any information and/or content is intended entirely for research, educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or consultation advice or investment strategy. The information is not tailored to the investment needs of any specific person and therefore does not involve a consideration of any of the investment objectives, financial situation or needs of any viewer that may receive it. Kindly also note that past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking or past performance statements. We assume no liability as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information and/or content provided herein and the Company cannot be held responsible for any omission, mistake nor for any loss or damage including without limitation to any loss of profit which may arise from reliance on any information supplied by Signal Centre.
Short
by VantageMarkets
Bitcoin Trend Analytics May 10th - correction in the downfallBTC continues in the downward channel. The bearish impulse wave has been realized with a great force. It's temporarily completed. We need to wait for a sign of recovery above the turning point at $33998.08. After the bear's catharsis is poured out, the market will see a small correction. But essentially bears are still in control. The next key support: $26579.39 Safe trading, pals. Hope my daily analysis helps you trade and welcome your idea & comment.
by BitMidas