Longer term positions

[Xenophon]

Apologies for ignorance amongst all you professionl full-time traders, but I am hoping to find some info about the most suitable chart setup for the longer term positions as I can only trade on a part-time basis and wish to make longer term my method. Anything, pointers etc, would be appreciated. tahnks in advance.

 

[Rhody Trader]

First of all, the vast majority of folks here are neither professional or nor full-time.

Second, for the most part any chart set-up you find useful in the short-term works just as well in the long-term. Chart reading is mostly timeframe independent.

 

[tomorton]

For the various signals I am seeking -
daily candlesticks with 14MA: (for swing trading patterns of various sorts)
daily swing bars with 14MA: (for swing trading patterns of various sorts)
hourly candlesticks (for the sole daytrading pattern I recently started to follow).

I suspect this is extraordinarily narrow for most traders to work with, but I don't find it helpful to look at more and more TA to confirm what a single chart can tell me.

I would emphasise that candlesticks are a vital science in their own right - you might have come to this conclusion already but I have been amazed that so many people outside the UK seem to use daily OHLC bars.

People tell me that intraday price action using 10-min, 30-min or 1hr bars is a useful area to study to reveal or confirm daily support/resistance, but I personally find this only successful on a random basis.