I'm guessing you're talking about different frequencies of trading/investment?
What I liked about the article was the approach to spot trading, I'm guessing you're inferring that this couldn't be used initially and combined with a day trading windows and/or longer term investment strategy?
It is really an article that could be called as a guide because you can follow the gist that the author is pointing out in terms on how to spot an altcoins that has good trading frenzy. But off course it is not always that this rule follows it is still expresses a good point of view. But as I noticed it is just in poloniex. Is there any similar type of tide indicator in different exchanging sites?