Time is a very important concept to measure because how long it takes for price to rise or climb has an important impact. Eg. Think of a real world example, a plane going slower than a car won't take off where if it goes fast enough has the ability to fly. On the other hand, driving through a school zone at the same speed as on the highway will lead probably lead to a very dangerious situation even though you're still going from point A to point B. Using price and time inside of your patterns will be extreamly important for consistency.

What is XABCD trading when it comes to time? Time is extremely important when looking at patterns as they can tell us so many things and help us with our trade management - we teach you this in our educational course. If you're looking for more information on the importance of time, our Complete Guide to XABCD Patterns has a lot of good information surrounding this topic.

Eg. Once a pattern is triggered, you will only have so long before your ability to forecast patterns diminishes and will lose probability. Similar to the weather and trying to forecast 7 days out. Understanding how long a pattern will take to work out and all the measurements between the start and completion of the pattern makes you far more successful as a technical trader.

Knowing this information can be important in order to try and forecast if you will be out of a trade before a new event happens. It can also be used to know if a trade will be completed by the weekend.

We collect patterns daily, and last time we checked that was around 1200 patterns a day. We then look at all these patterns and determine their reversal rate success and then look at the patterns total bar count. So given this information we can make sure the software only shows us patterns that have patterns that meet those minimums.

Each pattern can be broken down further and looked at by leg segment. We consider a leg segment to be from one pattern point to another. Eg, X point to the A point and then look at how much time it took to create the pattern points. This allows us to get a more consistently shaped pattern.

The smaller the time frame the less time you will have to react to any pattern. If you require more time, then you should be trading a higher time frame. With that being said, a 15 minute candlestick chart will usually give you an hour to enter a trade on average.