Man I don't know if your system is manual or automatic, but if its manual, it doesn's seem that you have a plan at all. In all you charts you just counter trending and loss all the time...
Would you say that my last trade of the day (on the chart posted earlier) was 'counter trend' out of interest?
I don't really know. I'm always being told that the markets are always changing, and that nothing works forever. Maybe that's it.
FWIW, I've been studying and day trading CL for about 4 years and the only change I've encountered is the volatility. The only adjustment I have to make is when the volatility picks up (today, for example), I don't expect to get into most of my trades with a tiny stop loss. My stop loss increases a bit and the profit target increases as well. That said, I trade pure price action. Other methods of trading may degrade. I was wildly profitable as a beginner and the methods I used degraded badly; I then found another consistently profitable method which also degraded badly for me. Once I learned price action concepts and built a plan around them, it's always the same. PA is so predictable in a trend, it just doesn't seem possible that it keeps working.
I guess everyone here would like to make a living out of it, me included. (Although my years on various trading forums suggest that, despite some peoples claims, this may not be possible without a lot more 'off-chart' information)