Does automated trading require any time frame boundation?

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Mwenye Egwu
Answered 5 months, 3 weeks ago
<p id="isPasted">My own automated strategies use indicator inputs based on the M5, M15 and H1 timeframes (combined with pure price action). Sometimes I use multiple TFs in the same strategy, so I always make the timeframe an input parameter. This also prevents human error in platforms like MetaTrader when running the EA on the wrong chart: the program can now run on any chart. However, that doesn't mean these strategies trade at the bar open of these timeframes. Instead, each incoming tick, the strategy updates the indicator values and combined with price action decides whether to enter or exit.</p><p>Some commercial …</p>