Can watch second charts and minute charts for timing intraday trades. But for context should check minute vs hour, hour vs session, session vs day, session/day vs the week and/or month etc.
I agree with you for sure. I trade 1 and 3 minute charts. And I have experiement with 4 and 8 range bars. You are right about , there is alot that can go on in 3 minute. How long have you traded range bars? What I noticed about range bars vs time bars is my stop loss can be reduced.
I use volume based candlesticks for ES, I use various volume charts like 500v, 2000v, 8000v charts. for fast moving market, I use 500v (something like 1 min chart) for entry