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Yes, I can, Have you ever made money with these methods ?
Not sure which methods you are referring to exactly but I’ll guess you mean checking candles in multi time frames to improve probability of trading in the right direction. In automatic trading no as it is difficult (not impossible) to compare candles in different timeframes but I am absolutely certain that in manual trading I have using the theory. Buy on the dips is one example that springs to mind. When you buy at a good value price in a market that inherently wants to go up such as major indices then you have already increased the probability of being profitable. It is exactly why the big boys buy when the price is falling and sell when the price is rising. You will never beat an index buy and hold by only buying on rising prices – you have to buy when it is cheap and sell when it is expensive. Even if the method has not made me any money it will certainly have stopped me losing quite so much! 🙂