I know you not doing longer term, part of my funds are in very long term commodities, and system does chase highs and lows all the time. System is always early, sometimes as early as 7 years or couple months. But I hedge every beginning cause this normally has the greatest risk. The tightest amount of risk, percentages of reward are far greater.
Bigger rewards are not in day trading, generally takes years to learn how to day trade or scalp and you must have well developed set of rules. Buying lows and selling highs consistently gets easier approximately 7 years in when doing counter trend cause you have to learn topping/bottoming patterns and there are many. This is not to say you have high winning percentages but have learned you risk little to get full swing profits.
Trading with the trend first 3 years one can learn to buy low and sell high, risk small and exit with much larger profits by being able to read the patterns. But in beginnings of learning, too many want to trade before learning the answers to questions.
Many never learn that recent past on charting can show to disregard current signals to enter. Like when Head & Shoulders top formed when price has moved the "mean" of that swing, so buying on dip would be an iffy entry. Many other patterns may form that most traders are aware of lower probabilities whereas lack of knowledge traders will take, knowledge is king in all time frames.
Slow down.
