Uh oh. Maybe you should spend more time on strategy testing than going out on a limb with all the pikers here.
I hate autostrats. I'm weaning myself back into intraday scalping, manually. I love the mental engagement. (But hate it at the same time, as evidenced by how I felt on Wednesday during the Minutes release.)
Hello Overnight, I love scalping manually. It is fun. You will have more fun and profits scalping. Manually swing trading is hard.
The thing is, scalping ain't what it used to be. These days, you're competing against the machines and manual scalping will put you at a disadvantage. Also keep in mind that these number-crunching POS's are more pronounced on time frames that are used by most daytraders, like 1 minute or 5 minute chart. I would suggest you switch to using Tick or Range charts.
Continuing from trade #17... Tried to do some scalping on Monday and Tuesday, and as you can see it did not go well. Got sick of the chop so settled down into swing mode again on the Dec MNQ. It worked, but was not pretty. Ended the week basically flat. Monkey still on the back...!
Continuing from trade #24. A light week. The Sep MES position finally closed out. Don't like this bear-market rally stuff. The monkey remains... After the crazy of next week, will determine if I can work that one out with the Dec MYM contract.