Hi,

What is the best indicator to use that looks into a bar and tells me how rough or calm the ride is within the bar?

I mean, if I'm looking at a bull candlestick on M30 I would like to know if the M1 data within was trending strongly upwards or if it was really jumping all over the place. Maybe H4 might want to look at M5 or M15.

Basically, since there is more than 1 way to get from point A to point B, I'd like to see how straightforward the route is that was taken. Did it take the direct flight? Or were there many stopovers in out-of-the-way locations?

If there isn't one readily available, can someone tell me what the best way to measure this would be? Would I create an indicator by measuring those up to 30 bars on the M1 frame using some kind of oscillator? Or determine some kind of correlation coefficient?