Like a lot of you, when I first got into trading, my pace was especially “fast”:
Open the charts → see a surge on the 15-minute chart → rush in → get reversed on five minutes later.
Focusing on just one timeframe is like trying to run a 100-meter race while wearing nearsighted glasses.
Trading is like driving: if you only watch the dashboard and not the road ahead, a crash is only a matter of time.
Watching only the 15-minute chart makes it easy to get fooled by “fake moves,” for example:
• It’s clearly a bounce in a downtrend, but you mistake it for the start of an uptrend;
• It’s clearly choppy consolidation, but you mistake it for a breakout.
How do you use candlestick charts across multiple timeframes? I use these three charts to match the rhythm of live trading.
4-hour chart — the steering wheel for the overall trend
Before every trade, the first thing I do now is open the 4-hour chart:
• Uptrend: highs and lows are rising, so I prioritize looking for long positions;
• Downtrend: highs and lows are falling, so I avoid going long;
• Sideways market: no need to rush in; I mostly wait and watch.
I only move on to shorter timeframes when the trend is clear and the structure is well-defined.
1-hour chart — a map for finding entry and exit points
Next, I switch to the 1-hour chart and focus on key levels:
• Previous highs and lows, support at consolidation ranges, and clusters of moving averages;
• Look for places where the market has previously reacted.
There are always markets moving, but opportunities don’t wait for you every day.
If you don’t get in, you can keep watching others recover their losses, multiply their positions, and make it out. Talking won’t help—the rhythm has to be right, and then the U will come.@渔歌趋势 #BR
Open the charts → see a surge on the 15-minute chart → rush in → get reversed on five minutes later.
Focusing on just one timeframe is like trying to run a 100-meter race while wearing nearsighted glasses.
Trading is like driving: if you only watch the dashboard and not the road ahead, a crash is only a matter of time.
Watching only the 15-minute chart makes it easy to get fooled by “fake moves,” for example:
• It’s clearly a bounce in a downtrend, but you mistake it for the start of an uptrend;
• It’s clearly choppy consolidation, but you mistake it for a breakout.
How do you use candlestick charts across multiple timeframes? I use these three charts to match the rhythm of live trading.
4-hour chart — the steering wheel for the overall trend
Before every trade, the first thing I do now is open the 4-hour chart:
• Uptrend: highs and lows are rising, so I prioritize looking for long positions;
• Downtrend: highs and lows are falling, so I avoid going long;
• Sideways market: no need to rush in; I mostly wait and watch.
I only move on to shorter timeframes when the trend is clear and the structure is well-defined.
1-hour chart — a map for finding entry and exit points
Next, I switch to the 1-hour chart and focus on key levels:
• Previous highs and lows, support at consolidation ranges, and clusters of moving averages;
• Look for places where the market has previously reacted.
There are always markets moving, but opportunities don’t wait for you every day.
If you don’t get in, you can keep watching others recover their losses, multiply their positions, and make it out. Talking won’t help—the rhythm has to be right, and then the U will come.@渔歌趋势 #BR
