Hi Gian,
I would like to pursue this further. Will have to gather my thoughts and write some things out.
I think we approach trading quite similarly.

I only trade a few markets and off the intraday 1 min chart for executing trades.
I use the other time frames to get to the point where I want to follow the market and look for trade opportunities. Will have to write some things out.

Not nitpicking numbers here. My RT commission is only about $10 but if I pay attention I can have nice runs of 6 to 10 small gains of say 50 to 200 and a loser of a couple of ticks plus comm.

Where I lose out the most is trying to set a stop wide enough to stay in the trade and get some sleep etc. I eventually get stopped out and give too much back. I think I would be better off just closing out and starting over later.

I was not paying attention today....
Some quick examples might be: [all intraday, 2day, 1 min] Today
Gold from 1767 I likely would have stayed with it if were paying attention
Ec, Dx have been too erratic/volitle of late
Ng - ?? maybe on that run up/dn had I gotten in early and established an near break even exit - I may have followed it up moving my stop/limit but I doubt I would have traded it down as I likely will not short Ng at this time/conditions.

Enough here ....will continue later ....
Trades and Duck had an interesting exchange a couple of days ago that I want to go back to, maybe you followed it.

Lee