You're looking at the wrong type of volatility. Simply, stay away from that DOM stuff or order flow...its a heaven for Algo manipulation. wrbtrader
Love it, love it, love it. You trade what the stockmarket gives you. Realize you are but, a sardine (retail trader) swimming among sharks (hedge funds, brokers, banks). Be dumb and become chum for the sharks or be smart and feed with the sharks. Your choice.
DOM is rough, yes everyone says "keep emotions out" but most traders still struggle with that. Now add a DOM that even in more normal markets is floating up and down and moving all over the place. Trading on a chart is better and more efficient in 95% of scenarios (I don't say 100% because I am sure there's someone good enough or has a strategy they use VIA the DOM, but none the less I've never met and no one who is successful trading I know uses the DOM).
DUH! If you have to trade "small enough" and "wide enough"... kind of defeats the mission of trading on leverage, doesn't it? (Unless, of course, you just want to be a player for the sake of playing.)