Disliked{quote} I'll try to answer to your questions a ) for the selection about the moving averages I am not too sure but I heard that hosoda backtested ichimoku with thousands of students of the tokyo university when he did create it .With my experience with ichimoku it make sense to have several moving averages to detect quicker or slower the moves in the market. But like you have written in your posts , it has a lot to do with cycles as well b) the forward and backward has to do with cycles of market and important levels of supports and resiistances...Ignored
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