Timeframes: Multiple Lenses for One Market

Every timeframe is a camera angle.
The market does not change—only the amount of detail you choose to view.

Core Principles

1. Higher timeframe = context & bias.
   Use weekly/daily to define trend, key levels, and major ranges.

2. Mid timeframe = planning.
   4h/1h charts help map swing structure, corrective legs, and potential path.

3. Lower timeframe = execution.
   15m/5m/1m charts help with entries, invalidations, and trade management.

Building a Routine

1. Start at the top.
   Identify current regime (trend, range, transition) and mark macro levels.
2. Drill down.
   On mid timeframes, label swings vs corrections and note where volume concentrated.
3. Execute.
   On lower timeframes, wait for price to interact with the areas mapped above.

Avoid These Traps

• Letting a noisy 1m spike convince you that a daily trend reversed.
• Ignoring higher-timeframe liquidity pools and only trading intraday noise.
• Flipping bias every time the lower timeframe prints a pattern in the opposite direction.

Practical Checklist

• Do I know what higher timeframe candle closes today?
• Has a higher swing high/low been taken out yet?
• Is my lower-timeframe plan aligned with structure two levels above?
• Where does my invalidation sit on both the trade timeframe and the higher one?

Mastery of timeframes is less about memorizing rules and more about perspective.
Zoom out to define intent, zoom in to execute with precision.