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1.
The trade must currently be profitable.
2.
The 15-minute chart must indicate a solid trend in place.
3.
You must set a new stop loss based on the daily chart.
4.
Reduce trade size so that risk remains no more than 2 percent of your
trading account (based on the new adjusted stop from the daily chart).
5.
Monitor the trade at the opening bell the next morning.
These same rules apply when going from a 5-minute chart to a 15-
minute chart. Trade size must be adjusted.
Knowing about Fundamentals
As a general rule of thumb, the lower (or faster) a time frame you choose
to trade, the less you need to know about the company in terms of funda-
mentals and news.
If you’re a long-term investor, you should know a lot about the com-
pany you are about to buy, such as management’s track record, earnings,
debts, P/E (price-to-earnings ratio), and multiples for that sector or group.
Basically, you need to know the fundamentals of the company. If you are a
day trader or a market “scalper,” you will have little interest in fundamen-
tals. You’ll focus only on short-term technical charts and momentum.
You may use fundamentals to find markets to trade and then use the
ART software to tell you when to enter and exit that market.
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ART
Use Caution When Day Trading
The ART techniques can be used on any time frame, including intraday
trading, otherwise known as day trading. When choosing the intraday time
frame you want to trade, you must keep the following points in mind:
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The shorter the time frame, the more trading skill is required.
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Short one- to five-minute time frames are especially influenced by
traders of higher time frames. Trading systems can experience diffi-
culties due to trading activity outside their chosen time frame, which
the trading system cannot see or measure. You may experience draw-
down when the realities of higher time frames affect the realities of the
time frame you have chosen to trade.
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While your system may accurately indicate the realities of the time
frame you are trading, you may still experience a loss from stronger
realities of another time frame. This is an argument for trading in align-
ment with the Higher Time Frame Filter (see “Advanced Techniques”
in Part V).
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Or you may just accept this type of drawdown, using proper risk con-
trol. You would then trade through it without having to be preoccupied
with many different time frames.
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