well, like i said, i have a limited understanding of ichi but due to my discussion with western world traders...professional traders like hedge fund managers told me that top people do not need ichi or other trading strategies as they MOSTLY work with naked charts or a moving average or RSI / stochastic, divergence or trendlines as they are very experienced with price action.
once the london & US sessions are over, why are markets slow or less volatile ? does the moving averages or rsi/ stoch stop working for japanese people that the markets become less volatile ? japanese follow ichimoku mostly and it is mostly traded on DAILY TIMEFRAMES !!!
whatever wothy strategies you maybe working upon WILL NOT work with all pairs on all timeframes & WILL NOT work for long unless continuous implimentation is done. this is the single most reason why people head for 5 major pairs and trade them in london open/ US open sessions along with strategies which are popular with top banks & institutions as retail traders STILL form a very small fish in this ocean.
once you are very experienced with price action, you do not even need ichimoku. well, on the contrary in japan ichimoku has & will be a CONSISTENTLY FOLLOWED system in their sessions. you may want to read a little about ichimoku ' s history.
if you talk about other traders, in my opinion usually traders avoid ichi whether indian, russian, african or italian because it seems complex to them while it is not.. after thorough understanding & fair practice.
when they can' t even stick to simple set of moving averages, no need to think further that they won' t stick with ichi for a long time either.
i commented ' ichi works well with yen in asian sessions as a belief not only by me but a Japanese trader who happen to be an acquaintance & it made sense because when a lot of people use the SAME METHOD for making their buy & sell decisions CONSISTENTLY throughout the YEAR...price respects those levels. this is why Fibonacci numbers are important because EVERYONE is seeing them.
it' s always enriching reading your posts though & you might very well be right in your standing :thumb:
regards
rishi