which time frames to use

1m, no noise, there is a rustle of money.

Well i've heard that look at 3 different time frames... 4h --> 1h --> 15 min and wait for the direction of the new wick..

You should keep in mind that there can be pretty major difference between the signals on the 4-hour and 15-minute time frames.

May I know your trading style please? Yes, you should select your trading time frame in order to your trading style; such as lower time frames (below H1) are useful for scalping trading, for day trading you should use D1 and H4; in addition, you can rely on higher time frames if you are interested on long time trading! By the way, as a scalper M30 is my favorite time frame!

Well, you should work with daily time frame! Because, D1 is the most flexible time frame for trading, that’s way from retail to pro all of successful Forex traders are mainly using this time frame! In other words, you may manage your entry point by using lower time frames like M15, M5! D1 time frame if for identifying market trend!

That really depends on the type of trader they are. If they're a scalper the daily time frame may not be very useful.

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It may depend on your trading strategy! May I know the name of your trading strategy please? I see, H1 is very popular time frame here! Even, when I do intraday trading then I mainly use H1 time frame, no objection at all! Time frame is related to your trading style and strategy!

I just use candlestick analysis and MA and BB indicators to ascertain changes in trend, reversals, etc. It doesn't have a specific name. My point was that candlestick analysis seems to be more reliable on H4, M30 and M15 time frames than H1 time frame.

It is not really advisable for new traders to trade with very short frames like the M15. There would be too much price movement most of which are fakeouts hence the new trader will easily generate wrong signals.

If they're training themselves to scalp they could do it. Though doing it on a demo account for a while first is adviseable.

That’s the strategy that I am also following! Yes, I determine the status of market trend according to the candle pattern of h1 and h4, in addition I select my entry and exit point according to the m5 only! Even, I identify my swing entry point on m5 time frame!

It has already been mentioned that the market is fractal. So basically the best "timeframe" would be the tickchart. But in order to identify price moves you would have to zoom out a lot to get a clear picture. This "zooming out" is realized with timeframes. It gives you are bigger picture because PA during a certain period gets summed up in a candle/bar, but this summing up means the excact priceaction is not shown and therefore information lost. The PA of 48 M5 candles is summed up in one H4 candle.

The timeframes that you use are not really that important as OHLC levels are kind of arbitrary and dont really matter (at least lower D1) . Whats more important is that these timeframes show the Priceaction occured in the relevant timespans. These timespans are: multiple years, current year, quarters, current month, current week, current day, trading sessions. In the financial world, you wont see anybody saying: hey theres a huge trend on H1! They would rather refer to where the market is right now according to this year, month or week. So it kind of depends on your screen resolution. I am working on a 17" notebook with 1920x1080 resolution and from the point in MT4 where its zoomed out, i zoom in 3 times. This gives me the optimal candle size. Might be different on bigger screens.

So a monthly charts give me ~20 years which is more than enough.
A W1 chart gives me roughly 4 years of PA, so which is fine to show several years.
D1 gives me ca. 10 months which is still ok, having the quarters plotted in is useful. Also one should be aware that they are using a broker that uses the correct timeframe http://www.learntotradethemarket.com...k-close-charts. This tf is good for giving you a picture where the market stands according to the current year or quarter.
H4 chart shows me ca. 2 months so good for overall picture of the month. H1 shows me almost 2 weeks, so it gives good indication where we stand in the current week. For intraday i use M5 which shows me almost the whole trading day (20hours), at least from london open to newyork close which is most of the relevant PA. Again it depends on your screen resolution, size and personal preferences, but the relevant timespans should be covered.
A lot of traders seem to disregard other timeframes, which in my opinion is an ignorant mistake. When you are trading on the larger timeframes, you would be able to time your trading much better and therefore gives you more opportunistic levels, so your SL are less likely to hit plus eventually you might be able to change your risk managment (smaller stop) and so increase your risk/reward.
For short term traders its also important to know where the market stands so they can act better according to the bigger trends.

If you are an intraday trader; then H1 and H4 are enough for you! But, if you want to make swing trades position then you need to work with higher time frames like D1, W1 and above! Basically, below H1 time frames are appropriate for the scalpers!

True. I think that it should be mentioned, however, that when it comes to scalping some people dispense with time frames altogether and use tick charts.

Considering that the market is "fractal" as someone mentioned earlier it would suggest that the same thing you see on the higher tf you will see on the lower. Traders mainly talk about "following the trend on the higher tf" but nothing can possible tell you how the next candle will close. So if you can't predict it on the tick, then how could one guess what it will be on a very delayed higher tf?

I do not know about others for time frame issue, I personally use H1 or H4 for my trading work. Because they are more accurate any other one.

I personally trade idea, in the process I use everything from Weekly to tick charts, remember kids, don't trade the timeframe, trade the idea and use timeframes as a tool to pinpoint the best moment to enter/exit the trade.

on the opening of the week I check weekly,that is once a week,everyday I start checking daily ,4hourly,1 hour once and use 15 min tf for an entry and follow up until that trade is over and per day one pair gives 1-2 trades,so it is not that much of screen time,i deal with major pairs only.i don't know when traders talk about 28 pairs,how do they manage? because trade has to be taken with so much diligence and thorough study.