You heard from several people here.
A great deal of range in their sophistication. You are correct to want to discuss stuff. And you have to really make the effort to draw people out by apppealing to their merits. Some aren't very meritorious and don't worry about that; it is a good weeding gizmo.
A lot of people here have a lot of money. And they have to practice risk management as well. Once you get to setting up several independent trades, all weighed by sizing, for risk management purposes, you get to a place where your question is on the table all the time but it is construed in a different way, usually.
People with capital emerge from a singular viewpoint regarding set ups as well. Often they are broadly successful in that they have opportunities frequently as the market moves along.
In what you were told about that could be construded as a "zone", you saw two responses by people. One, it turned out was unilateral (the side you mentioned was a no no for the "zone"); the other answer was less risk adverse (like putting) and was bilateral in the "zone".
So the task for you is to plan ahead for when you have some money. Now, this actual question, for you, has a different answer.
Temporarily until you get off the ground, trade with a one ticket orientation. This means use the capital to carry only one trade at a time. Money management will tell you how many contracts are on the ticket.
In fact, for people who have not made a lot of money, there is specific number of contracts that may be used. It is one.
After you have more money, go to multiple contract tickets.
After you have a lot of cash available but not in a single ticket trade; you go to risk management strategies that deal with "zones" for your proven set ups. You can sprinkle risk management sized lumps into zones (bilateral is a reasoned way to go). If you see another zone coming up while you have some lumps making money, you repeat the zone strategy that you have proven in.
Read this and chuck it. It is just background stuff in reality.
Really try to focus on entering a little laterin any trade that is possible for you and only use one lousy contract for the foreseeable future. Learn how to stay out of the market first. Then learn to get out when you are in a place you did not intend to be. Learn to enter by making the market move to your tool as it proves to you that you placed the order in the correct place for a trend to come to.
