Quote from: tabbek on September 11, 2013, 08:58:56 PM

the difficulty with beating the market currently is the fact that most of the substantial jumps and losses were caused by huge volume swings with no real precursors. There's no good way to predict someone coming along in a slow moving market and in one swoop making a huge purchase/sale. No trend gets established, just BAM, huge change.

the sharper the angle of the upswing or downswing, the harder to 'trend'. the more curvy, the easier.

the shorter your timescale, the more you can see the curve to a mass purchase / sell, but then you also subject yourself to other issues.

tis a balance between looking at big picture, missing finer detail, vs looking in close, seeing details, but also being thrashed by false signals

agreed, I used to trade on 15min, now i trade on the 4h......anything below is gambling now/atm