Volume, tick and time are the partial derivatives of a function price. As w/ all partial derivatives equation, you can take them to zero to trade w/ the other. If you can use all 3s, more power to you.
Fine, I thought you were talking about single tick charts. 5s or10s charts for NQ would be fine I'm sure, but would be to short to maintain a view of context for something as active as ES. You just need to find the proper setting according to the activity of the contract. No, I don't either. Don't even consider indicators to be TA.
The NQ is active enough . At the beginning of the session I don't need more than a half-hour, and the 5 or 10s suffice, unless one is trading off tiny charts. After that, it's chiefly management.
(^^^Here's where we need a "Like" for a piece of a post...!) It's going to be a nasty day (for me) but this note will be the string around my finger -- if not today, "soon".
It's, like, "the fourth quarter of 2017..." and I JUST discovered a little Microbloatsoft tool called {Guess what!!} "Snipping Tool". OH JEEZ. This is in W7 FWIW. But it's handier-than-snot for creating real quick .pngs from what's on your screen(s). Even has a little 'highlighter' thingie. I'm probably the last one to learn of this ... ...just not something I used before. Now, I'm probably dropping half-a-dozen .pngs a week for this and that....! Google will probably handle any questions. (But I'm probably the last one to know....!)
Or what they need to see, to hopefully make sense of a nonsensical situation. So what is logical for the Price Volume trader? Statement: Price alone is useless without volume, as is volume without price. Is the above statement logical?
Congrats. That's a REALLY good question! Answer.... the only thing that really counts is PRICE!!!!! I'm 100% sure of that for "the market in general and stock index futures". While I suspect it's also true for individual stocks (with much disagreement from the peanut gallery)... I'll hedge on that for now.
Learning english, understanding Al Brooks, understanding volume for successful Trading, that is a trifecta in spades! If there ever was a magic key to unlock Aha's, these two sentences point to it.