The 1-hour chart looks bullish, the 15-minute chart looks bearish. How should we enter the market? 90% of trading beginners fall into this trap of conflicting cycles. Below, I will take 3 minutes to teach you how to identify the bullish and bearish signals conveyed by different time frames, so you won't miss out on similar market movements anymore. First, we choose two cycles: the trend cycle and the signal cycle, or the larger cycle and the smaller cycle. The premise for choosing these two cycles is the 4-times principle. That is to say, if your signal cycle is the 15-minute chart, then your trend cycle should be multiplied by 4, which is the 1-hour chart. This way, while ensuring the risk-reward ratio, we can also ensure that we can catch the bottom at the end of the 15-minute pullback. It may seem a bit confusing now. The purpose of selecting two cycles, with the larger one being the trend and the smaller one being the signal, is to follow the major trend of the 1-hour cycle and make a reversal during the pullback in the 15-minute chart. The larger cycle has only a few candlesticks, and it is certainly not easy to capture the pullback ending point. Even if you manage to catch the pullback ending point, your risk-reward ratio may not look good. By going to the smaller cycle, these issues can be easily resolved because, with the four principles, there will be more candlesticks, the pullback ending point will be easier to capture, and the risk-reward ratio will also look better. This was mentioned when we talked about Vegas in our system class. After thousands of reviews, I found that the 4-times principle is indeed very useful. For example, if you have a 4-hour trend cycle and a 15-minute trading cycle, the result will certainly be that the current 4-hour chart is in an uptrend, while you see the 15-minute chart is about to fall. Then you try to catch the bottom of this 15-minute chart, trying to grab its pullback ending point. However, you will find that you sometimes catch it halfway up the mountain, because this 15-minute drop may just be a central expansion of the 1-hour chart and may continue to decline. This leads to situations where you enter the market and hit your stop-loss, then enter again and hit your stop-loss again, and just when you are too scared to enter, it suddenly goes up. Many people may have encountered this situation. This is because your cycles are not set correctly. So, either you use a 1-hour plus 15-minute as your trend cycle and trading cycle, or you use a 4-hour plus 1-hour as your trend cycle and trading cycle. In summary, you must follow the 4-times principle. If you use the Chande theory, it can also be 5 times because a segment in Chande theory consists of at least 5 candlesticks. But for beginners, I still recommend using the 4-times principle. Now, let’s summarize: if your trend cycle is the 1-hour chart, then your trading cycle is best as the 15-minute chart. If the 15-minute chart looks bearish, then you should make a reversal on the 15-minute chart, with the aim of following the uptrend of the 1-hour chart. The last question is, how can you determine whether you are more suited to a 1-hour plus 15-minute chart or a 4-hour plus 1-hour chart? Generally speaking, we first decide on the smaller cycle and then multiply it by 4 to derive our larger cycle because you will spend 80% of your time looking at the smaller cycle while trading. Therefore, you must determine based on your viewing frequency. In other words, if you want to make money in the trading market, you must first ask yourself: Is your current trading cycle suitable for you? Is your current trading cycle the one you are good at? Does your trend cycle follow the 4-times principle? If you don’t have a definite answer, then do not enter the market, otherwise, if you don’t fall, who will? If you don’t lose money, who will? That’s all for today, and I hope this helps you.