Well before a pilot takes off he has gone through his flight plan in detail, got the weather, logged his plan with control, checked out his aircraft, gone through the pre-flight checks - at this stage most of his attention is on the dials and gauges inside the cockpit. As soon as he has taken off and cleared the ground his primary reference is methodical scanning out the cockpit window (coarse level), with occasional instrument checks (fine level). He has more than enough to keep him busy and plenty of mental capacity left in reserve.
You are over-loading yourself. If you are entering on P1 or P3 (or as near as you can) what is the maximum adverse excursion before you know you were wrong? Hold unless this price is hit - you can place a protective stop outside the channel if you can't trust yourself to act in time.
You've gone to all that trouble to get airborne but you seem to want to find any excuse to get back down on the ground.
I suspect the trigger finger has arisen because you almost always have price go against you after your entry, even if only for a few ticks. If this is so, can you see a better entry on the same bar (assuming that bar was in all other respects a good one to enter on)? As with flying, the sooner you clear the ground, the safer you are.
Hopefully you can tell I've had to think about this quite a bit too.
