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curious what does the majority watch to calculate IB's? 30mins or 1hr

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curious what does the majority watch to calculate IB's? 30mins or 1hr

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R

1 hour, more here:


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I have also used 1 hour for the default settings for the IB Range Bands indicator.

To trade opening range breakouts, it is possible to use shorter timeframes down from 30 minutes to 1 minute.



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