{quote} I wish Master Alien could drop in and talk a little more about the relationship between time frames. Smaller time frames might 'drive' the Larger in a sense, but do we not accord more respect or weight to the indi's on the higher time frames, as they measure more accumulated price movement than the smaller ones? I would be interested to hear the views of anyone who has given thought to this.
it is obvious that NOW or present time will build the future. The future of the higher time frames will be built by lower time frames.
But when it is said that "you should pay attention to higher time frames" it is because they have more history behind them and more sample data if you think statistically. History won't change in a blink of an eye it takes time but it should start some where. and that somewhere is 1M, 5M charts. when they start to disobey what higher time frames are saying and this kind of behavior goes on and on you can see that higher time frames will change direction accordingly.
Now practical knowledge. 1- You should always follow higher time frames because they show us the big picture
2- When M1 and M5 are moving against M15 and H1 you should watch M15 and H1 closely because M1 and M5 can force them to change their direction. So why is this so important? Suppose you have a long trend on H4-W1 but at the moment H1 and M15 Rsiomas are below 50. you should look at M1 and M5 behaviors closely. when they start to rise above 80 they can force the H1 and M15 to go above 50 or even 80 this is called a retracement back to the main trend. So you can hunt the opportunities sooner than most of the traders can.
I said before every technique that Alien showed us is rational.
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