Just finally, I know this has been a longish thread, about buy/sell signals using the Stochastics. They are very accurate I find and you would buy on a cross up of the 20 green line (80/20 line) as the Stochastic is coming out of the oversold zone. Stochastic buy and sell signals are more accurate the higher timeframe you go.
But here is the thing. Please read on. This is important.
You saw the magic above in the Gold chart XAUUSD 3-Month Historical chart that went back to the GFC, when the Stochastic Indicator was applied to this 3-Month Chart, but that's right 3 Month candles. You could see from the chart that the oversold area, that is below the 20 zone only occurred once over nearly 20 years around that 2015 period when the Stochastic had become Oversold as the gold price had retraced from approximately 2012-2016.
But here is the things. I know I say that again. Although you get a very clear signal to buy Gold in April of 2016 on the 3 month chart which is also a 3 month candle, what I would be doing in reality is firstly noticing the Stochastic,
1. Going into the Oversold condition less than 20. I'm getting excited as a buy signal could be coming up.
2. But we saw that the 3-Month stochastic was oversold for quite a few months in 2015 and in early 2016 we got that magic cross-up into the 20 zone giving you a Buy-Signal to be possible go-long on Gold for a the next 10 years. Well take a look it never got oversold again.
3. What I would be doing in reality is probably not buying Gold in early 2016 from the 3 Month Stochastic. What I would do is get my cue from that higher timeframe 3-Month, but I would start applying the 1M and 1Week Stochastic to see whether they were down in the Oversold area below 20. You monitor these M and W Stochastics. Then as you hone in on their crossing up of the green 20 buy zone in Stochastics timeline/chartline, you then switch to the Daily and finally after some trial and error you finally accurately get your Buy signal from the 4HR Stochastic as it crosses up on the 20. The 4HR is the sweetspot for Stochastic, it will just be more accurate and you get in earlier from the Oversold as price heads up. If you buy from a Weekly Stochastic cross-up there can be a lot of price action and volatility but it's timing coming out of the oversold zone will never be as accurate as say the 4HR. You can even do a buy from a 15M Stochastic. This would be the most accurate of all.
I hope I have not confused anyone or even myself.