It's reasonably straightforward to trade a chart like this: But in reality, charts sort of look like this: I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how I could eliminate the noise. Options include: 1. Moving averages 2. Tick/renko/range 3. Volume/# of trades bars 4. Line-on-close etc etc None of these are truly satisfactory. Moving averages are too slow, 2, 3 need calibration and 4 is pretty much the second chart above. I ultimately settled on a variant of number of price changes per bar and calibrate it with some fancy python code (not fancy) based on the structure I want to see. I'm getting increasingly frustrated with this because it isn't as clean as (say) the first chart and it still requires me to use whatever little brain I have left to interpret. How do you eliminate noise in the series?
In understand the point you are making here, about smoothing out charts. I can show a possible example of trying to smooth out noise in a moment, but something caught my eye as simply astounding... In the blue circle at the arrow, you are effectively showing time-travel to the past. Awesome!