The usual stack is three: a higher timeframe for the trend, your trading timeframe for structure, and a lower one to time the entry (the pullback entry). Keep it to two or three — more screens invite analysis paralysis, not clarity (analysis paralysis).

The higher timeframe is the tide; your entry timeframe is the wave. Ride waves going with the tide, and even a mistimed entry tends to bail you out.

Alignment is the edge

The power of MTF is confluence — when the trend, the level, and the entry trigger all agree across timeframes, the setup is far higher quality than any one signal alone (confluence). NoVo applies a version of this to its own read: it checks that the 1-minute structure isn't fighting the higher-timeframe picture before it leans one way (how NoVo reads the market).