Hi Ian
Thanks for the mention
The holy grail in trading and Investing is being positioned along with the price cycle movement - this can be a trend, counter-trend correction, swing, big move or little move
Because price spirals move in waves/cycles - NOT Elliott Waves - they drag certain Indicators around with them, yes Indicators are lagging, but you can use them smartly and when you do you shove the odds massively in your favour which results in a high win rate AND R value return
This chart shows the 15 min time-frame of the FTSE100 Index
The vertical BLUE lines show when the 15 min stochastic makes a bullish reversal - its not precise but its close enough for this purpose
We can clearly see that there is price movements upwards to some degree on most bullish reversals in the Indicator
the up moves are subdued in downtrends, this is because the higher higher time-frame is down rather than up and until that turns up from down you'll fight against the trend - that is not to say you can't make money on counter-trend moves because you can, I'll show you in the last chart of this sequence
so anyway, on these 15 min stoch reversals, PRICE should rally
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All I have done here is drop down the time-frame to 5 mins - the vertical lines are still the 15 min stoch reversals from chart 1
This should also explain why when you [meaning 99% who trade the stochastic and it doesn't work out] sometimes take a perfect stoch reversal trade and it fails - you were out of alignment with the higher time-frame stoch and price cycle movement
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this next chart shows the 2 min timeframe with the same 15 min stoch revs on it and the red vertical lines are when the 15 min stoch made a bearish reversal
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the lessons here are trade the path of least resistance and in the DIRECTION of the bigger higher time-frame price cycle
This one shows multiple time-frame analysis intra-day again trading a counter trend move - 30 min chart = down
The hourly was also oversold = "IF" it reverses then EVERYTHING underneath it [TIME wise] WILL 100% GUARANTEED reverse to the upside by some amount - so we sit and wait for the tell-tale signs of a bullish trend reversal and they appeared on the 15/5 and 2 min charts = trade off the 2 min chart!
Obviously for those pedantic people out there, I am NOT saying the trade was 100% guaranteed to happen, I am saying IF the stoch position signals genuine oversold and we get a true genuine bullish reversal that goes up to or beyond the 50% level on the 1 hour chart then it means price has rallied and if price rallies on the hourly, it usually creates great trading opportunities on the 5/2 or 1 min charts
I show on the 2 min chart the time i got into the trade - you then manage the trade off the 15min or 30 min or hourly chart - i got out when the 15 min stoch went overbought as I didn't have the time to manage it thereafter - up to you how you play it
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This isn't anything new, Walter Bressert in the 1990's wrote about this