Are you looking for an answer about the best timing for trading intraday?

Well, you are at the right place to get the best and most worked-on timing for
intraday trading.

Let us discuss it step by step about the timing and then the perfect timing,
which is the best regarding my experience in the market for a decade.

The timings mostly recommended for intraday trading are:

3 minute

It is basically rarely recommended, as it is the fast timing in which the
action and reaction of the traders are very fast, and it is not easy to catch
it and do according to the movement going in the stock.

3 minute chart

Well, if you are an expert who has been trading intraday for the past 8 to 10
years, then it would not affect you, as you may be aware of the ups and downs
of the market, and your calculative mind may have been trained to trade in
those circumstances.

But as humans, it is better that we do those things that are normally easy and
in our hands. As trading involves our hard-earned money, it is better to make
decisions patiently and not in a hurry.

Verdict: not recommended.

5 minute

It is one of the best timings used for intraday trading, as it is a
medium-range timing in which the movement can be caught and reacted to by the
traders on time.

When we say that traders can react on time, it simply means that thinking and
implementing a trade get easier as it is on time.

5 minute chart

Sometimes it happens that traders do go for fast-timing trading, in which the
reaction timing for taking a trade is so fast that before implementing a
trade, the chart gets different and they have to change the idea to take a
trade.

So it is utmost important that traders use that sort of timing in which they
are comfortable and on which they think that it is easy for them to trade.

whereas a 5-minute timing chart is one of them in which the reaction and
action time of the traders and chart are easy.

verdict: recommended

15 minute

As the 5-minute chart is recommended by the traders, so is the 15-minute
chart, as it is the best timing for a newbie and for the normal traders who
are looking for the perfect timing to trade intraday.

15 minute chart

Basically, the 15-minute timing chart gives us more time to think and more
time to react to what we see on the chart. And ultimately, it gives us a
helpful environment to take a trade and to exit a trade.

What we have seen is that it is very easy to identify the chart patterns and
chart trend on the 15-minute chart, as it is neither too fast nor too slow; it
is somewhere around the best average time for looking at a chart for intraday
trading.

verdict: highly recommended

1 hour

We should not have discussed it because it is somewhere down the line, like
day trading, in which the timing is slow in comparison to the 3 minute, 5
minute, and 15 minute charts.

1 hour chart

It is correct that we get too much time to think and react to this timing, but
the result that we may want to happen in the chart may happen at another time,
for example, on the next day, which doesn’t make it an intraday trading time.

We have seen that trading in this time frame, on some of our trades, we get
our target on the next day and our stoploss gets hit on the next day, which is
not suitable for intraday timing.

verdict: not recommended.

Final verdict

All the timings discussed above have their own essence in trading, which makes
them different from one another.

From our experience, we found that a 5-minute and 15-minute timing chart are
best for intraday timing.

And 15 minutes is the best between those two.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions on the Best Timing Frame for Intraday Trading.

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  • What is the best timing frame for intraday trading?
    • 5 minutes and 15 minutes are the best, but 15 minutes is considered better.
  • Is a 1-hour timing frame good for intraday?
    • No.