The period each candle represents, from seconds to months.
Last verified 13 September 2026 · written by the DexLadder team
What it means
The period each candle represents, from seconds to months.
Why it matters when you trade
Timeframe decides everything downstream: how much noise you see, how wide your stop must be, how often you pay fees, and how much of your life the strategy consumes. Lower timeframes offer more opportunities and a worse signal-to-noise ratio, and they multiply costs — an edge of 0.3% per trade is destroyed by a 0.1% round-trip cost far faster than one of 3%.
Worked example
The same system on 5-minute bars trades 40 times a week; on 4-hour bars it trades twice, pays a twentieth of the fees and survives a wider stop.
See it on live markets
DexLadder runs timeframe against live market and pool data, with simulated capital, so you can watch it act on an order instead of reading about it — no account, no wallet, nothing installed.