Multi-Timeframe Analysis

Line up weekly, daily and intraday charts.

1. Why Timeframes Matter — The same stock can look like it is rising, falling and going sideways all at once, depending on the chart. Here is how timeframes fit together.
2. Weekly Charts for the Big Picture — How to read weekly charts, which moving averages traders use on them, and what SPY’s weekly chart showed through the 2025 and 2026 declines.
3. Daily Charts for Setups — Why the daily chart is the workhorse for swing traders, what to look for on it, and how it fits between the weekly and intraday views.
4. Intraday Charts for Entries — How swing traders use hourly and 5-minute charts to fine-tune an entry, and the traps of staring at intraday noise.
5. When Timeframes Disagree — What to do when the daily chart says “buy” and the weekly says “careful,” with SPY’s real May 2025 example.
6. A Top-Down Chart Routine — A simple, repeatable routine that runs from the market to the sector to the stock, and from weekly to daily to intraday, so every trade gets the same checks.