Just wanted to get everyone's opinion or personal preference and reason for whether they initiate a trade intra-bar or at the close of a bar.
I always take trades at the open of the next bar after my signal bar. So for example I may trade a bearish engulfing candle pattern, I take a short at the start of the bar immediately after the bearish engulfing one.
I find that this eliminates much of the guesswork from my trading, essentially I am trading the historical chart I will see at the end of the day.