I’m trying to keep my charts simple and avoid using too many indicators.

At the moment, I mainly look at market structure, support and resistance, and moving averages for basic trend confirmation.

For experienced traders, which indicators have genuinely improved your decisions, and which ones only added noise?

Do you prefer moving averages, RSI, volume, VWAP, or mostly price action?

I’d also be interested to know which platform you find best for clean charting and analysis.

williamJacob 

I’m trying to keep my charts simple and avoid using too many indicators. At the moment, I mainly look at market structure, support and resistance, and moving averages for basic trend confirmation. For experienced traders, which indicators have genuinely improved your decisions, and which ones only added noise? Do you prefer moving averages, RSI, volume, VWAP, or mostly price action? I’d also be interested to know which platform you find best for clean charting and analysis.

@williamJacob

Since you’ve said you’re looking for trend confirmation, you can easily use all your indicators on a single chart if you want. You just need to understand what each indicator is actually used for and what each one shows.

“VWAP” shows you where you currently are in the market. Institutional traders often trade aggressively there. Here, you can also run ‘RSI’ as additional confirmation.

You can use “Volume Node” to clearly see the volume structure.

You can use “MAs” for timing entries. Good for your type of trading (trend trader).

Trend lines, support (S), and resistance (R) are your decisions.

Here a little chart example:



In today's world most free trading platforms from any US brokers are on a good level to fulfill most obligations traders ask for. The importance of the value of any platform depends finally on your trading style. So: First be clear what and how you want to trade and then decide which platform you need to do so.

FINALLY: No matter what you do or how you do it, never forget the following: As a trader, you’re not trading the market. You’re trading your hypothesis. What does that mean? Every one of your trades is the implementation of a hypothesis, not a certainty. You’re always trading only your interpretation of the market and the market will do what ever he wants when ever he wants with your trade.

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