Quote from volente_00:
How many breakout traders do you know that are profitable and trade es ?
I know of zero.
Es exhibits a high level of mean reversion and a lot of back and filling. This chops breakout traders to pieces most of the time. This alone makes it a great candidate for CT traders, even biased one like ammo because it retraces quite often to force weak holders out before the next move. Given this fact, an intraday trader of ES can often make more than the trend trader will for the day due to the mean reversion and choppines of es considering it spends the majority of the time range bound and reverting back to the mean.