Today is always buys after my trend and yours if you are fallowing the one hour and four hour cycles got my bit of the day.
i will like to point out if you wanna fallow the trend and trade only in one direction you can interchange the 144 to 36 MA and see what happens like below screenshot.
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM

4H MA 9
How many hours are in 4 H?
Answer: 1/4=4,
H1 trend direction is = 4*9= 36 MA
above 36 buys and below it sells only

How many 15M are in One Hour?
Answer: 60M/15M=4
15M trend direction is= 36*4=144 MA
above 144 buys and below it sells only

hOW MANY 5M are in 15M or 1H or 4H?
Answer1: 15/5= 3, TREND 144*3=432
Answer1: 60/5= 12 TREND 36*12=432
Answer1: 240/5= 48 TREND 9*48=432
5M trend direction is= 432 MA


All in all the top down approach is simple if you only can trade that direction and take advantage the subsequent 2nd dot in which aver semaphore you using
you should all look back and read xard's post i am really happy i found him my first few months of trading otherwise i dont imagine where i will have been.