Timeframe
Technical analysisThe period each candle on a chart represents.
In plain terms
Fast timeframes maximise noise and cost. Your edge as an individual is patience, not speed.
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Timeframe drift
Risk & psychologySwitching to a longer chart to justify holding a position that has hit its stop.
In plain terms
Converts a small planned loss into a large unplanned one, because the position size no longer matches the stop.
Higher timeframe bias
Technical analysisThe directional read taken from a chart roughly four to six times your trading timeframe, used only to decide whether to look for longs or shorts at all.
In plain terms
It has exactly one job and cannot borrow another. The moment it starts justifying a position that has already reached its stop, the framework has started rationalising.
Multi-timeframe analysis
Technical analysisThe practice of using three charts — higher, trading and lower timeframe — with one distinct job assigned to each.
In plain terms
Direction, then signal and stop, then entry price. Keep them roughly 4–6× apart, and remember that the timeframe you entered on owns the exit.
Positional trading
Technical analysisHolding for weeks to months based on higher-timeframe structure.
In plain terms
Fewer trades, lower cost drag, and it fits around a job — which is the point.
Slippage modelling
Trading & ordersEstimating the difference between the price a backtest assumes and the price a live order actually fills at.
In plain terms
A daily-timeframe system loses relatively little to it. An intraday one can lose its entire theoretical edge.
Sustainable practice
Risk & psychologyA level of involvement in investing that can be maintained indefinitely alongside the rest of your life.
In plain terms
Stopping is a spectrum rather than a switch — shrink the satellite, lengthen the timeframe, automate the core, take a defined break. Scaling to what you enjoy is a different decision from quitting.