I disagree with you 100 %. I trade the futures , I trade 2 min chart. On Thursday last week I got into a very nice 50 point move on the dj emini futures by waiting for the rapid rsi to get oversold on a pullback and then entered the trade long with the trend.
I think that indicators can be used to for trends as long as you are not trying to fade the trend
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