Trading while working 9-5

most charts are fractal, most of the time

this means that with probably only two exceptions, strategies are mostly not time-frame-dependent

typically, slower charts produce fewer trades but higher win-rates (this is just factual, really - can’t see anyone arguing with it)

[the two exceptions are: first, real scalping and HFT (you wouldn‘t do this anyway, so it’s not relevant here?); secondly, time-of-day-specific strategies such as opening range breakouts (you probably wouldn‘t do this, either? - they can actually work well, though)]

so your choice of strategy probably shouldn’t really be determined by the hours/chart-speeds you trade

if you want to look at and think about a couple of good, sensible, easily learnable, easily tradable strategies that are both decent and pretty reliable, work well on slow/daily charts, are based on sound principles, and have successfully stood the test of changing times/markets, here are two suggestions : -

  1. “The Camelback Technique” by Joe Ross; look online for information and the free PDF with that title - you really do need to start from that, as much forum/website/Youtube “information” about it is no good at all - it’s a chapter from an old Ross textbook

  2. this system works well and reliably (and is probably about the only one there that does, as 99% of what’s there is junk!!) but you need to use 1:1 position-sizing, NOT higher as unwisely recommended in the thread, and definitely not 1:3 (that‘s absolute nonsense!!)

both the above methods are actually kind of similar and each is based on very basic price action principles - each uses an indicator or two but not for the trade entries (these are two promising signs, of course!)

obviously, you need to practice either/both on demo, first

shout if you need help

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