For what it's worth, a couple things. In the treasury market, traders will spread the CBOT contracts like ZB/ZN or ZN/ZF in order to cut down on noise in the action. You can get better reads on the market this way. You can even spread those to cut down further on noise -- eg. UB/ZB against ZB/ZN, i.e. a treasury butterfly. In this market (rate futures), the primary dealers/broker-dealers use the ICS market to manipulate the outright books all the time. And it's the same thing with the investment banks and their index/stock market manipulation. Index markets are the same with traders watching Nikkei/SP or FDAX/Eurostoxx spreads and so forth. If you watch the S&P 500 / Dow Jones spread, you will be charting implied Nasdaq 100 pricing (this is like a beta ratio spread). The DJX/RUT spread is nice and smooth. The front month NQ/ES differential is one of the heaviest traded besides the S&P 500 vs Dow 30. A chart of MSFT against QQQ will trade much more smoothly than NQ outright. XLK vs XLF is another spread that will have much lower noise than single names, outright index instruments, or even outright sector ETFs. (try and ask yourself why) If you have never done it, you should watch something like ES/YM while having the globex ES book on-screen. It's a big eye opener and will show you just how much noise and other games are being played in these markets. The order book/ladder/stop-limit/limit order manipulations are unrelenting and absolutely ruthless. The moral of the story is that prices are manipulated to drive up volumes, control execution costs, maintain liquidity provider profit margins, and line the pockets of trading firms/broker dealers. But some things are much harder to manipulate than others. It really helps to think about the total size of the market you are charting and how liquid it really is. If you want to cut down on noise, it makes a lot of sense to price one asset in terms of another. In crypto land, this would be like watching ETH/BTC instead of ETH outright.
No matter how hard you try you can’t actually eliminate noise if you are scalper or a day trader, while in swing or position trading you can avoid the noise. Trend direction is a good way to eliminate minor deviations and only show larger trends.
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One trader's noise is another trader's trend. A single 5 minute bar in the middle of barbwire may represent one or more trends on a 10 second chart. Just like trends, define what you mean by noise on the time frame you're trading.
If you start seeing charts as if they've been hand-drawn... it's not noise nor bad data. It's drawn by a trader smoking pot. That's when it's time to take a break from trading and close your computer...go to a rehab facility to detox. Simply, it's not reality. Then again, next time just post a bar chart or candlestick chart...that's not hand-drawn. wrbtrader