How soon after you put on a trade do you expect to be "in the money"?

within 2 or 3 candles usually

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For me, profits are expected much earlier. The longest am willing and can wait is the time the market will take to blow out my Stop Loss.

I use higher-frame charts to make my decision to enter long or short. Then I use shorter timeframes, even 1m to decide when to press the button to enter. This will take patience, but limits your trade going against you as much and often the market proceeds in your favour much faster than just randomly placing your order. Hope this helps...

Usually within 2 to 3 candles. trading the 15m TF longer as the TF increases

I usually don't wait too long before my order is in the green.
I trade the hourly timeframe and trade candlestick reversal
patterns. I place my order entry, stop order, and limit order
and usually wait for the candle to do something. I place my
stop order back far enough to give it some room to breath
as but as soon as my position is green I move my stop to
break even keep watch on my take profit. Sometimes price
will reverse before touching my TP and if this happen I
manually close out the trade for profit.

well it depends.
I trade the 4hr timeframe, and sometimes I'm in the money in an hour or two, but sometimes it can take up to 6 hr. It all depdens on how fast the currency is trading.
it also depends what you consider: "being in the money". For example, i consider being in the money when I am 50+ pips and the trend is still going in my direction.

a lot depends....

1 minute ore less on the 1 minute and out of trade under 3 min prefferebly...