All you need to do to increase your profitability is to increase your size. Fear not and trade large.
Think about it this way, it's extremely rare to buy the bid/sell the ask in ES without the price ticking through to the next level. Hence in order to hit your target of .25, the price actually needs to move .5 in your direction. But to get stopped out at .75, the price only needs to tick down by .5. So if are long, and the price moves up by .5 you make .25, but if it moves down by .5 (the exact same amount), you lose .75 or three times as much. In this setup you have to be right 75% of the time to break even before commissions. Good luck! -bbc
One more thing, always initiate a scalp or two right before major economic reports as this is the time when you have the best opportunity to really rack up the points.
And make sure you trade with one of those brokers who has $1K daytrading margins so you can always maintain the maximum leverage out of your account.
just like the inexperienced 'chuckers' who bought the better than expected non-farm only to have the bids disappear 10 handles lower!
Black swan is actually part of the UBER strategy of no loose trading. Just keep adding during a black swan and you are bound to not loose!!!