When you sit down in front of your charts, can you find a trade within a few minutes?
Most can't, because their framework is limiting.
Limiting, because it requires a very specific chain of events: specific time of day specific patterns, etc.
Some people can't trade "choppy" sideways markets.
No matter what your reasoning is, your framework is limiting and you probably don't even realize it.
When I sit, I identify the current trend the market is in, the current trend the market is retracing, and both of their levels of significance.
I identify if momentum is slowing into those levels.
I identify if the market has removed liquidity at those levels or not.
I decide where the market must hold and /or test to maintain structure of the current trend.
I identify where trend becomes logically satisfied.
I do all of this across many time frames, rather quickly.
Most of it has become intuitive now.
I don't need to spend 30 minutes analyzing the lower timeframes once I understand what the higher time frames are trying to accomplish.
It's a puzzle.
I form logical expectations. Many times they perform as expected.
When they do not, I don't just stop out in a losing trade and come back the next day.
My expectations failing, also provide me with a new logical postulate.
If this, then this.
Nope.
Ok, if not this, then this.
What it looks like:
Gained support to the lows. Expect to progress to trends start down and new swing highs, because the highs are tested.
Market moves to the trend start down.
Fails to gain, no new high.
Oops, I was only partially right.
Adjust.
If failure to gain, then new swing low is the expectation.
Any higher time frame level impeding this progression?
Yes, potentially.
Ok, watch the progression into it, adjust expectations accordingly.
This happens in my mind rather quickly.
Many of you have no understanding yet.
Keep at it.
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