I doubt there's a single person on this board who makes money "scalping" index futures, making or losing a few ticks each trade. It's the timeframe where retail (especially screen based) is at absolutely the greatest disadvantage in terms of transaction costs, info processing and reaction time/speed. I also think almost everyone who's actually familiar with the dynamics of price movement would agree that scalping strategies make little to no sense, conceptually, in terms of maximizing risk-adjusted returns.
The exception would be if you have a concrete structural edge: e.g. pit locals scalping brokers' customer flow, SOES/RAES bandits, or HFT speed + paid order flow.
As to the value of ET - personally I've found thousands of valuable posts over the years, and in earlier years I saved many of them. Almost none of the marked-up hindsight chart or TA variety, but plenty on the theory and philosophy of market speculation, fundamental analysis, special situations, "big picture" stuff, market lore, random nuggets or anecdotes from skilled traders, strategy development and evaluation, and especially risk management.
OTOH threads that collect marked-up hindsight charts are noob magnets and generate lots of clicks/views, but are worth very little in terms of actual content.
