Trading teacher - why would you not recommend any less than 1hr time frames? Am i not right in thinking that most bank traders and prop traders are flat at the end of the day and mostly use 5m and 15m?
The smaller time frames are just noise.
The best thing to do trading is to trade the support and resistence areas.
The S/R areas formed on the little time frames are not very reliable.
Generally the higher the time frame you use, the more reliable the S/R areas.
Personally I think trading anything under the 1 hour tf is death.
Also, its work lol.
With the 1 hour tf, all I do is check it once just before the hour each hour in the peak periods, if there is a trade on I take it, if not I leave it ... either way, I am free to do more fun things for the next hour.
Being a successful trader should not take a lot of time out your life ... which is one of the main reasons I got into into it.