Timeframes: five charts, one pair

What a timeframe is

A timeframe is the time one candle covers. On a 1D chart every candle is one day; on a 1H chart every candle is one hour. The same pair looks different on each, because each chart keeps a different amount of detail.

The five charts

Cryptokly uses 1M (one month), 1W (one week), 1D (one day), 4H (four hours) and 1H (one hour) for spot pairs; futures pairs and tokenized stocks use 1D, 4H, 1H, 15m and 5m. The slow charts show the broad structure that took months to build. The fast charts show what happened in the last day or two.

• 1M and 1W describe the larger structure: where price has spent its time and which direction the bigger swings point.
• 1D is the everyday reference chart, the one most readers check first.
• 4H and 1H describe the recent move in more detail, and they change faster.

How we compute it

Each chart is analysed on its own. The engine takes the last 80 closed candles of that chart, finds the swing highs and swing lows, and reads the trend from their order: higher highs and higher lows read as Up, lower ones as Down, and two swings pointing in opposite directions read as Neutral. A closed candle that finishes beyond the last swing high or low, a confirmed break of structure, also sets Up or Down. The engine reads a chart from 15 closed candles; a chart with fewer shows "History too short" instead of a reading.

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How to read them together

The five trend words can agree or differ. When the slow and the fast charts agree, the picture is consistent. When they differ, that is information too: a short move can run against a larger structure, and each chart describes its own window.

A practical habit is to start from the timeframe that matches your own horizon and then look one step higher for context. Every chart is a description of the past and the present; none of them promises what comes next.

Common mistakes

1. Comparing numbers across charts as if they were one series. Each chart has its own candles and its own levels; compare the words and the zones, one chart at a time.
2. Following only the fastest chart. 1H changes several times a day, so pair it with 1D or 1W before drawing a conclusion.
3. Expecting the charts to agree. A Down trend on 4H inside an Up trend on 1W is a normal state of the market.
4. Forgetting the risk. Crypto trading carries a real risk of losing money, up to the whole amount invested, on any timeframe.