For anyone who would like to make counter trend trades, let me introduce you to Kagi charts. They are very good at keeping you in the trend or avoiding going against the trend. Right now 2718 long signal on both 1 and 5 mins. Kagi As long as both the 1 and 5 mins charts are the same colors, you should be either in the trend (red>short, green>long, duh) or at least not going against the trend. They are not always signaling at the same time, usually the 1 min is quicker and could be used for scalping, but when the 2 colors are the same, they are gooooood. Edit: The 5 mins switched back to red at 2715. It is not as easy to use as I described above because of the fluctuation around switches, but that is the gist of it...