Why it is important for traders to drill down on your charts
As I have noted many times, identifying the side to trade is more than half the battle in putting on successful trades. In this regard, one way to do this is by drilling down on your charts as I will explain in the following:
The term “drilling down” means starting at longer time frame charts and then moving down to shorter time frames to find opportunities to trade on what I call the “strong side” of the market.
In this article I will show how I drill down using my Amazing Trader (AT) charting algo
The process is designed to look for confirmation of a trend or episode on multiple time frames, and then find an AT ladder pattern to trade. Note, an AT ladder pattern is characterized by rising red lines (uptrend) or falling blue lines (downtrend)
Down AT Ladder Pattern: USDJPY 30 minite chart
Drilling down time frames:
Daily => 4 hour => 1 hour => 30 minute > 15 minute => 5 minute depending on what time frame you prefer to trade.
If you see AT ladders building in the same direction on say daily, 4 hour and 1 hour charts, you can assume there is an imbalance tilted in that direction
What the means for trading is that the institutional type traders who trade larger size and use longer term time frames will be looking to buy dips (ladder up) or sell blips (ladder down).
What this means for you is when multiple longer-term time frames confirm each other (I.e. AT ladders pointed in the same direction), you can identify the side to trade from, which is where big money traders are looking to do the same.
You then drill down time frames until you see an AT ladder pattern on the time frame you prefer to trade (e.g. 30, 15, 5 minute) and employ the ladder strategy to trade (explained in detail when you subscribe).
Here is an illustration from a video I created awhile ago with insights that have stood the test of time.
NOTE, you don’t trade blindly as you need to be aware of any levels, especially on longer term time frame charts, that would dampen or reverse the current episode.
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