Re: Stochastic on M5: 5,3,3 vs 14,3,3 and what each is really telling you
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2026 9:58 am
Agreed that it's useful, and the point I keep coming back to is that the two settings answer different questions. 5,3,3 tells you where price sits in the last 25 minutes, so on a clean trend it parks near the top for ages and tells you nothing new. 14,3,3 is the one I glance at to see whether the hour as a whole is stretched.
Here's how I use them together. Say GBPUSD is trending up on M5 and the 14,3,3 is above 50 and rising. I wait for the 5,3,3 to dip under 20 and cross back up, then enter with a stop 8 pips below the pullback low. At 0.5 lots that's roughly 40 dollars risked. If the slow line is already above 90 when the fast one crosses, I skip it, since the move is stretched and a quick target gets hard to reach.
The thing I haven't settled is smoothing. Do you keep 3,3 on the fast version, or drop it to 1,3 for even quicker signals? And do you notice it behaving differently in the Asian session?
Here's how I use them together. Say GBPUSD is trending up on M5 and the 14,3,3 is above 50 and rising. I wait for the 5,3,3 to dip under 20 and cross back up, then enter with a stop 8 pips below the pullback low. At 0.5 lots that's roughly 40 dollars risked. If the slow line is already above 90 when the fast one crosses, I skip it, since the move is stretched and a quick target gets hard to reach.
The thing I haven't settled is smoothing. Do you keep 3,3 on the fast version, or drop it to 1,3 for even quicker signals? And do you notice it behaving differently in the Asian session?