As an outright futures trader, I use range bars. You have asked a variation of this question 3 times so far. YOU have to figure out what timeframe YOU are comfortable with. It all depends on what product you are trading and what your "edge" is. I suspect you are somewhat new to trading so my advice is to settle on a product and watch the market. You will likely determine your preferred timeframe based on this. One thing I am sure of is that there is no "right" way to trade and no "perfect" timeframe.
The problem is that you can keep pealing layers of the onion if you drill down. If you use ticks on ES what about order book? If you use ES order book what about the options chain? If you use the option chain what about the option chain order book? If you use the option chain order book what about the tick of the underlie cash index calculated in real time as fast as you can? Even if you get that far, what about the order book on all 503 stocks that ultimately ES is a derivative of? 503 options chain, 503 option chain order books... For me, without having a team this is an intractable problem so the only solution is bigger moves that span multiple days, weeks or months.
%% LOTs of tear$ shed on peeling onions\ great illustration MOST of the millions made + more/\ are done with investing + larger times frames\ + market makers + specialist$ ..... can doVery well with bid\ ask. Even though i did not vote/ i'm sure not a market maker , with all due respect; + no disrespect intended for MM or specialist$.......................................... I like,love the way MMs sometimes gun for resting orders, targets
What's the problem? It was an excellent post and he provided feedback and thanked him. Unless I'm missing some sort of spam issue?