How you watch chart and treat time frame

How you watch chart and time frame is I believe an important factor That not many traders discuss. Successful traders have a particular structure to observe chart. I want every one especially successful traders to give us their ideas and their structure the way they treat every chart.
I will share my way too. Let's share and discuss the problem each other way of observing chart.
By doing this we can process information quickly as well as accurately.
Let's have a Discussion now.
Thanks

I use tick charts in futures market

There are many indicators available to check the strength of pair in different time.for entry we start looking from higher time frame but does exit colour of a candle starts changing from lower time frame?

I find setup on !hour time frame,and I would like to check from weekly to daily to 4 hourly to 1 hour.Many times they all are not in sync*no same color candle) please guide how should I decide a trade?

I try to quantify as much as possible what I'm seeing on the chart. What traders call "intuition" or "gut feeling" is some kind of quantification that the brain uses when reading the information provided by the charts. There's the reason traders don't know why they have such "intuition" because they were never able to quantify to what they are looking for. I have a background in developing trading systems, and the reason why most trading systems fail is that they are too simple, simple doesn't work in the market.

The market is a very complex environment and a real trader starts to quantify the market behavior using his intuition and cognitive processes, the great work and the real edge lies in being aware of the quantifications that work.

Also, some way that I look into charts: If I'm seeing a demand zone being taken away by the price and I'm already with a SELL position in the market, I start to think: "Interesting, there are people who want to sell at this level, and this amount of people is greater than the number of people who want to buy at the market, so there's no reason for me to close my position, since there are some way more intelligent people that want to sell at a price that is worse (lower) than the price of my position."

(In fact, there's no amount of people, it's just amount of financial volume, but i'm using the "amount of people" analogy to better understanding.)

Also, one thing that i have really find useful was looking at more than one Time frame, as Dr. Alexander Elder says: "Adding a dimension of time give ourselves an edge over our competition."

Well, there's my 2 cents. I really want to know how other traders process their decision making reasoning in the markets and if they're aware of that.

You could try magic mushrooms, your eyes, meditation the golden ratio and years of gardening to understand price is nothing more than just a number, imperial and decimal are the smoke and mirrors, letters ? don’t even go there.
You want the answers, the world is full of them and they will mean nothing to you, stay with the questions, the ride is short, enjoy

Your ability to see the "demand zone with huge volume of money", means that you are almost holding the order book.

Hi HAsib, interesting thread started, indeed!

According to my observations small timeframes (e.g. H1) are often used for trading up and down/ back and forth (like EURUSD).
Having an image on H1 chart we can make quite good trading decisions, however there are often well seen levels (or better say areas on Price(Time) function charts ) on higher timeframes (weekly, monthly) which make more influence as (I guess) big players trade based on them.
For example:

On H1 trading seems very nice for swing trading up and down let's say with Bollinger.
However at the same time on weekly chart price is after big run down, and seems to make a pullback.
In that situation trading jauntily on H1 can be quite trappy, especially when we take trade down.
What is even more important I have found that big moves (mostly liked by traders) are preceded by false strong signal to the other side, e.g.:

on D1 there has started strong trend up, and on H1 there are higher and higher strong signals down ().
It looks to me like the traders on higher timeframes can continue the trend up, because there are still many traders on lower TF "believing" in less important signals down.

Regards!

It's not the time frame that is important. It's the time. Look at enough chart time to get an idea where price is in relation to previous support and resistance areas. You can zoom way out on a 15m chart or zoom in on a daily. It's not the timeframe. Its the amount of history viewed.

Ok, How you structure all of this what you are saying. can you please elaborate. If you explain it step by step that will be more beneficial.
Thanks

It is nice and exciting to look different timeframes and go with the flow...

A time frame is just a time frame. They all draw the same. The difference is the frequency of your trading signal and the range from high to low. Otherwise, no difference from one to the other. Choose the one that fits your lifestyle. Then choose a higher one whose range trades will appear as trend trades on your time frame.

I personally trade on D1. I don't go below D1 time frame. But the problem is you will not get regular entry. Sometimes you may have to wait for weeks for a good entry. I don't try to force the market. If i find any entry according to my entry criteria, I open trade. Otherwise I do not open any trade. Sometimes it difficult to follow the rules. Hope it helps you.

what is a your favorite time frame and single most indicator that helps you get the entry on that time frame?

Hi,

For me, the most "predictable", seems to be weekly chart.
This means that when I set up bollinger to a weekly chart I see more-less what is going on; if a trend is fresh, or I should expect reversal.

I am not sure if this is what You were asking.

BR
Marek