Posts Tagged "Time Periods"

Tick Charts or Regular Charts?

Posted by Harvey on Jun 15, 2010 in Trade Videos | 0 comments

Someone emailed me today to ask if I thought tick charts offered any advantages over regular charts. Here’s my reply: In this context a tick is a trade execution. So instead of dividing your chart based on time periods, you’re dividing on number of trades. A possible advantage of this method is that you will see a more regular representation of activity during slow and fast periods. To take an extreme example, in a slow moving market with very few trades occurring, you could...