{"id":418,"date":"2025-01-23T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2025-01-29T03:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:03:38","slug":"timeframes-in-trading-high-timeframe-low-timeframe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/timeframes-in-trading-high-timeframe-low-timeframe\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining High Timeframe and Low Timeframe for Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I find that I messed up my trading timeframes. Somtimes I use a 5-minute Market Structure Shift as my trigger point, and sometimes I take 1-minute Shift to initiate the entry process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This creates some wrong trades - doomed to fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now redefine my trading timeframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"gspb_text-id-gsbp-e8160b9\" class=\"gspb_text gspb_text-id-gsbp-e8160b9 translation-block\">I mainly trade NQ futures, obviously <strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-palette-color-1-color\">Weekly and Daily chart defines the big picturefor analysis<\/mark><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are around 3 hours during New York AM Session as my trading hours. I don't hold positions to afternoon or even overnight. I mainly do scalping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Thus, my  <strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-palette-color-1-color\">High timeframe<\/mark><\/strong> are: 4H, <strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-palette-color-1-color\">1H (major), 30min (major), 15min (major)<\/mark><\/strong>. I use these timeframes to observe how price reacts to PD arrays or Supply Demand Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"gspb_text-id-gsbp-c87f66e\" class=\"gspb_text gspb_text-id-gsbp-c87f66e translation-block\">My <strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color has-palette-color-1-color\">Low timeframe is 5min<\/mark><\/strong>. I use 5 minute chart as the base. If there is a micro Market Structure Shift, I can go to even smaller timeframes (1~3 min) to find an entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u8fd1\u65e5\u4ea4\u6613\u6642\u6703\u767c\u73fe\u81ea\u5df1\u6703\u641e\u4e82 Low timeframe \u4ea4\u6613\u6846\u67b6\u3002\u6709\u6642\u75285\u5206\u9418\u5716\u7684 Market Struct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-timeframe"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egobusted.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}