The Best Moving Average Settings For Every Timeframe (Daily, 4H, 1H & 30M)
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Two traders open the very same chart, same market, same moving average, the same number set on the line. One of them quietly builds a fortune with it. The other gets bled to death by it, trade after trade, and never understands why. Same chart, same line, same setting. So, what does the first trader know that
the second one doesn't? That question is the whole reason this video exists, and the answer is going to surprise you because it has almost nothing to do with the number you choose. Here is what I promise you. By the end of these few minutes, I'm going to hand you the exact moving average settings I would put on every
time frame you actually trade, the daily, the 4-hour, the 1-hour, and the 30-minute. Precise numbers, no guessing, no more turning the dial in a panic after every loss. But, before I give you a single one of them, you have to understand the thing that separated those two traders because if you don't, you will do what almost
everyone does. You will write down the numbers, get them perfectly right, and still lose. If you watched my last video, the one about the moving average secret 99% of traders get wrong, you have heard the first half of the answer already. The moving average is a filter, not a trigger. If you haven't seen that
one, finish this, then watch it because the two together make one complete lesson. But, there is a second half I never told you. And it is the reason one trader thrives on the very same line that destroys another. It is this. The setting on the line means almost nothing on its own. What
matters is whether that setting matches how long you actually intend to hold the trade. A man who buys to hold for 3 months, and then makes his decisions off a line built from the last nine bars on a 30-minute chart, is reading the mood of a single afternoon to make a 3-month decision. Of course, it whipsaws him. He
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