They do say that the pros don't even look at charts... can't nail these perfect entries... etc...
I don't often try to have a dialogue with individuals that come across like you do. You talk so much, and you think so much, that your ability to listen and contemplate suffers.
Your current thought patterns won't lend themselves easily to successful trading, as we've already seen. Whenever I come your posts, they show that you're still not thinking right about how to trade successfully and how to partner with the market.
You're missing the forest for the trees; but I don't know how I or anyone else would be able to help you see that. Your overwhelming focus on plotting entries, theorizing about mechanics, and referencing micro-interval charts are evidence to this. If you can unwind yourself, and start trying to understand and familiarize yourself with how the market itself actually moves; and not just regard it as a series of continuous data points that you need to apply rules and statistical procedures to, you might make some progress.
Those things definitely have their place, but you're putting the cart before the horse, and you've been doing it for quite some time. Difficulty getting a foothold into consistent trading despite numerous attempts at system design and execution is an indication that your broad-level hypothesis and beliefs about the market are inferior. Start trying to understand when and why you should even begin to be looking to position yourself in a certain direction.
You seem so comfortable with data, statistics, and mechanical, that I wouldn't be surprised if you read this post and conclude that it's incredible vague and of no concrete use to you within a few moments after finishing it, never to re-read or think about it again. Unless you learn how to understand the message that people occasionally attempt to convey to you on how to trade successfully without letting it pass right over your head, let all the noise go, and start dreaming and revising your core-level, fundamental understanding of what the market is and how it moves, I think you're going to keep spinning your wheels.
Einstein wrote to a companion that a good deal of his observations regarding theoretical physics came from a thought experiment he conducted by pretending to be a photon traveling at the speed of light, and then he went back and ironed out the formulas to describe the insights he discovered from the experiment. He often used to leave his study when particularly stumped and play piano until the answer came to him. You've got to learn to think differently if you want to succeed in this arena.
