1. Well, obviously moving the stop is going to help avoiding a loss, at least for now.
However, you can never be 100% sure in advance when the market will change direction, so increasing the stoploss a bit whenever the previous trade was stopped out is useless advice and will result in very big draw downs. I already asked you about this while including a chart per your request, yet you gave absolutely no useful answer.
2. So what does this actually mean? Every time a trade goes against me and continues in that direction i have to start back from scratch and ditch the strategy?
4. Swing trading is actually where the big money is, since swing traders don't have to worry about moving the markets with their big orders which they can spread, as a day trader at some point you will run into liquidity limitations, if you ever achieve that level of profitability in the first place. Also regarding the gaps up or down, you use indexes as an example, index futures rarely have big gaps up or down since they trade 23 hours a day.
5. Absolutely wrong, the middle of the well established trend has the least volatility, not the most.
6. Support and resistance is subjective, ask 100 people to draw support and resistance lines on a chart and you will get loads of different answers.
Forget about all these shitty rules that don't make sense, the number one rule in trading should be risk management and moving your stop a bit farther away each time it get's hit isn't proper risk management.