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Euro, CL, ES all should look clean on a slower chart. Liquid markets behave the same world over. There may be differences in volatility though. Any instrument with an average daily volatility between 1.5 to 3% should look clean on charts.
Instruments above 3% are generally riskier to trade.
I trade the index futures(Nifty) of the National Stock Exchange of India. Tick size is 0.05. So 200 ticks is equal to 10 points on the Nifty.
I think I was using too low of a tick settings. I'm still experimenting but the higher the tick setting the better it seems to work, but the catch is the stop is bigger.
If you are inclined to use a shorter interval chart for smaller stops, then you need an additional filter to trade in the direction of the dominant trend.
The StepMA is a good tool to show you the main trend. So you can take trades only in that direction and avoid bad trades.
I agree that higher tick settings give smoother charts, with much larger stops. I have found that it seems to work to trade from the small chart ONLY in the direction of the larger chart.