So excited to get a reply!!!! I love trading its the most rewarding job ever! To answer your question: Yes I am an intraday trader but I place a lot of emphasis on the daily chart. Even for swing trades - I believe in using the daily chart to find the setup, then the intraday chart to find the precision entry.
I trade mostly intraday so I don't have overnight risk on most of my income trades (I do have long term investments but I manage those positions in a VERY different strategy).
Years ago - early in my career, I took a 6 month period in which I traded with candled only (zero indicators). After that, I added just those indicators that give me a slight relative point of reference (for example - being a little far off the 9 exponential moving avg gave me some caution in the $INTC trade today). Essentially I use:
Heiken Ashi, 9EMA, VWAP, and an auto adjusting smoothed moving avg (I wrote an algo that drives this). The purpose of the algo moving avg is that it remains mostly flat during consolidation with little to no false curls.
Thank you so much for the engagement - excited to finally get out of my quiet trading zone and actually engage with others in my profession!!!!
I attached another trade screenshot from April 2nd (SPY). Check it out!