Aren’t we all! Actually, if I remember rightly, the OP himself is in his nineties! I will have to check on that, he did write his history here somewhere…
This method is a somewhat interesting design but I also do not like HA candles much. They do help to keep one in a trend but they look better than they really are because the HA close is different to the actual candle close due to the HA calculation formula, where HA close= average of the open, close, high and low prices.
Yes, I do use a daily chart for my overview, but my trades are based on a 4H/1H combination within the overall context of the daily chart. This does not mean that I only trade in the direction of the daily, rather it gives a measure of the relative risk in either direction vis a vis the daily and the potential move expectancy.
Needless to say, mine is a discretionary approach rather than mechanical! I use charts to tell me when it is wise/safe to cross the road, but not to actually order me to blindly cross!
As I mentioned earlier, I do use MMA’s a lot together with the 200SMA levels on all TFs: weekly, daily, 4H, and 1H.
As a rule, I would say that this forum is very much biased against using indicators and most people favour PA, but I have always liked MA’s and use little else.
About 2 years ago I was looking for a change away from currencies and started concentrating on Crude Oil trading, and that is where the bulk of my trading is nowadays. But I do follow the thread by @dennis3450 which may also interest you, if you have not seen it yet, since it is a longer term position type approach:
https://forums.babypips.com/t/trading-the-trend-with-strong-weak-analysis/77959
and whenever something there fits my trading method then I am in there too,
Since you were involved with the Rainbow method you will perhaps understand what I do here:
These are a couple of examples of my daily charts for S&P, Crude Oil and GU (which has just broken up through its daily 200SMA )