15M, 1H, 1D, 1W, 1Mo — and which to use when.

15-minute (15M)

Each bar is 15 minutes. Lookback ~14 days. Captures intraday momentum, opening-range breakouts, VWAP rejection, and similar fast setups. Best when:

• You day trade or scalp.
• You’re trading the open or the close.
• You have time to act fast.

Hourly (1H)

Each bar is one hour. Lookback ~90 days. Captures setups that form over a few sessions. Best when:

• You actively trade during US market hours.
• You want to time an entry inside a daily setup more precisely.
• You hold for hours to a few days.

Daily (1D)

The bread-and-butter swing-trader timeframe. Each bar is one trading day. Setups develop over days to weeks. Lookback now covers ~3 years of trading days so multi-year trends and long-term support/resistance are visible. Best when:

• You don’t want to babysit the market intraday.
• You hold positions multiple days or weeks.
• You want the highest-quality setup signal-to-noise.

Weekly (1W)

Each bar is one trading week. Lookback ~5 years. Built for position traders who think in months and quarters, not days. Filters out the day-to-day noise so you see the underlying trend regime clearly. Best when:

• You hold positions for weeks to several months.
• You want to confirm a daily-chart setup is aligned with the bigger trend before sizing in.
• You’re reading commodity, currency, or biotech charts where weekly structure matters more than daily wiggles.

Monthly (1Mo)

Each bar is one calendar month. Lookback ~10 years. The longest-horizon read tradr offers — for secular trends, multi-year base breakouts, and buy-and-hold conviction. Setups develop over quarters to years. Best when:

• You’re holding for 6 months or more.
• You’re evaluating whether a stock is in a structural bull or bear market.
• You want long-term conviction context before adding to a position.

How to combine them

The classic top-down approach scales from monthly down to 15-minute: monthly for the regime, weekly for the trend, daily for the setup, hourly for the timing, 15-minute for the entry. If higher timeframes agree, the trade is high-conviction. If they conflict, drop position size or skip it. Most swing traders live on 1D + 1W; most day traders live on 1H + 15M.

How often we re-check

The cron polls each ticker on a cadence that matches its timeframe — no point re-analysing a weekly chart 96 times a day when bars only update at week close:

• 15M / 1H — every 15 min during market hours.
• 1D — every 30 min during market hours.
• 1W — every 4 hours during market hours.
• 1Mo — once per day.