Price action flow and price action setups are what I am trading first, tick volume or trades per candle size are secondary and just help me make trade decisions. Trades per Candle do produce patterns that are better to understand over time based Candles so that gives me a slight advantage or a winning edge. I do seem to get information on my candles that are missing on time based candles so that helps me to trade with confidence.
We are talking on charts that are quicker than 5 minutes per candle here.
I used Tick Volume as a strategy for a few years when I first started Forex trading but I found it gave little advantage.
I have since found that switching from time based charts around the 1 minute chart to Tick Charts around 133 to 200 ticks per candle seem to be more accurate, giving me that edge to beat the problems dealing with spread size in Forex.
