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#284 - What's The Best Timeframe For Stock Charting?

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Hey everyone. This is Kirk here again at Option Alpha and welcome back to the daily call. Today, we’re going to answer the question, “What’s the best timeframe for stock trading?” This is actually a user submitted question. Somebody submitted this question into us, again, which is a great way if you have questions about options trading, stock trading, the market, etcetera. Get those questions into us, so we can queue them up on the daily call. But somebody said, “Can you give us an idea of what the timeframes are for indicators in particular that are best and useful? On a month-to-month as you show in many of your examples or day-to-day or do they work just as well on three or one hour or five minute charts, etcetera?” Really, the idea here is when you're looking at charting and when you're looking at in particular, technical analysis indicators, what do you use? Do we use a one hour chart, a one day, a one month, a one year? I mean, there are many different chart formats you can use. I think for most of the