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I have 3 different systems for trade
1) 1 uses price only (for long trade H4 and up)
2) 1 uses simple MA (midterm and short)
3) 1 uses price + volume (any)
Indicators are supplementary only. Some kind a red flags which warns me about of price movement probability.
I have three indicators on my chart, but only one generates a trading signal. But that one trading signal was built by around 1,000 lines of C# Ninjascript code. It took a while to do.
but for most of them, I like the description tool better than indicator.
also about the lagging factor. if you prefer to trade pure price action without any indicators, don't forget if you look on the left side of your charts you're looking in the past. and that's what lagging indicators do as well. anyway I know successful traders that use a bunch of indicators, but I also know successful traders that use no indicators at all. so my opinion is it doesn't really matter, important is that you're profitable.
I use 2 moving averages on tick charts and a short term ADX graph in a subgraph. Then I have one alert when my conditions occur. I have been trading futures for 21 yrs and have slowly whittled my charts down to a minimum of clutter
Somehow a lot of people don't seem to get this. A trendline is as lagging as a moving average: it tells what price did in the past. So does support/resistance. You have to figure out what it will do now, and you do it in relation to what happened before... which lags the present.