I don't have opinions, I follow my method, if it losses the system lost and not me if I do all the rules. It tells me to average down on all trades, so even breakeven plus one tick scores me very decent coin. I been scalping a very very very long time, Indexes and every other instrument do reversion to the mean. I simple don't lose very often, 1-4 trades per week and I do over 300 trades a week in mostly ES/NQ although I do trade once in a while YM/TF. It is the same patterns all day long, hardly ever changes, I am just a Monkey hitting buttons, puppet on a string.
Triple top in NQ, I mean it is simple now for me to see patterns, it is like breathing.
If you can build a method that just breakevens most of the time, you have an incredible profitable method, average down and get out after few minutes at original plus 1-2 ticks if trade does not go your way.
Too often traders look at Protective Stops as the end all, they should look at them as catastrophic or insurance in case the market violently goes wrong way, but never let price actually hit them.
OK, back to my tree......