OK, so firstly from my experience, you need to be flexible in...

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    OK, so firstly from my experience, you need to be flexible in everything you do, and however you think, in the markets. Don't accept a rigid view of anything....even Wyckoff analysis. Be flexible in your thinking, and be prepared to be sympathetic of less than perfect, or less than text-book, price action.

    So, that post was in response to working out which time frame maybe best to trade in.
    It is suggesting that you do you normal analysis in the Longer time frame, manage the trade (look for strength or weakness) in the Intermediate time frame, and enter and exit in the shorter time frame.
    I know this will not be perfect for you, as you are not usually able to watch the market during trading hours.....but maybe of some help.

    I doesn't mean this is what you 'have' to do, it is just a suggestion from what some other trader has done......you can easily adapt it to suit you where necessary, to suit yourself. Eg- it maybe that you just use Longer term charts for both analysis and to manage a trade, and a both it and a shorter time frame for entry and exits.....weekly and daily.......

    For instance, in my super accts, and the longer term trading acct., I generally use month and week for 'long' analysis, week and daily for 'intermediate', and usually just daily for 'shorter', because that is what suits me. And from time to time I might want to look 'inside' an ambiguous daily bar, so I use an intraday chart for that, usually 4hr & 1hr. It is quite surprising how the extra detail of a 4hr or 1hr chart helps with detail at times.

    hopefully that helps....

    cheers
 
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