For me, and everyone is different, I keep it simple. I use the daily chart's open and close, and I use specific moving averages. I also look at the weekly and monthly charts. I learned from following a successful trader's method out of New York. It's a great website with free morning and afternoon video's if you are new to trading. I'm not selling anything, but if your want to watch the free video's go to t3live.com.
The MA's I use and the trading group in NY swears by are:
8 EMA (exponential moving average)
21EMA
50 SMA
100 SMA
200 EMA
200 SMA
These have served me well.