“But does it happen on intraday charts, Hima?”
I get this question all the time about how the techniques I teach in my books and courses work. So let’s take a slice of my market observation this morning to show you yes, it does.
Shift from Downtrend to Up
I trade the E-mini S&P 500 futures (root ticker ES). I analyze large timeframes down to small timeframes, but I primarily trade using a 3-minute chart and a 15-second chart. On the latter, each candlestick represents 15 seconds of price action, and that’s what you see in this chart here:
Looking at the left-hand side of the chart of the current December 2026 contract, you can see that the market had a pop higher right after opening at 9:30 AM ET, then quickly dropped lower.
After that, it started going up slowly, as marked by that first orange line segment.
I had made a short trade around the open. It was profitable, and then I found myself waiting for the next short trade.
The thing is, that first orange line segment represents the emergence of one of the Gann Trading Patterns Bullish Setups that I teach. This pattern is first mentioned in my Trading Methods of W.D. Gann second edition book.
That pattern setup completed at the first black arrow, providing a great opportunity to go long (buy contracts) based on a trend changing from down to up.
The resulting price action move was from 7762.25 to 7769.25, producing a 7 point move ($350 in potential trade gains).
Acting on the New Uptrend
From there, once a new uptrend appeared to be developing, the crosshairs you see around arrow #2 show how you could have used my Lost Forecasting techniques to be ready to buy on the pullback with great precision.
In fact the forecasted price was 7766.00 and that’s exactly – like literally, to the tick – how far price pulled back before resuming higher.
Had you gotten long there, the trade would have headed to 7773.25, which was very close to arrow #3. That was an upside target based on a new forecast. The uptrend continued from there.
I shared this chart with these three points to show you a few things.
Yes, you can be ready to trade changes in trend and continuations in trend even on really small intraday timeframes.
The techniques I teach here, including just these few examples from Gann Trading Patterns and Lost Forecasting, do apply to short-term moves and targets.
And the important thing to know is that they are actually observable and tradeable in real time!
👉 What Are YOU Seeing on Your Charts?
Today’s report came from my observation of my 15-second ES futures chart, but these kinds of setups can show up across markets and timeframes.
What intraday timeframe are you observing or trading most right now?
Comment below, I’d love to know.
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