Most trading educators and information seems agreed that trading charts are mostly fractal, and that you probably can’t really tell apart a 5-minute chart and a 1-hour chart without looking at the time-scale displayed on the chart.
If this is right (maybe it isn’t?!) why is there more “noise” on faster charts, why do people also say that results are more reliable on slower charts, and why are there more whipsaws on faster ones?
Is there an inherent conflict of beliefs, there, or is there some kind of unifying explanation that makes sense of both these perspectives?