This is most likely one of few posts I have to disagree with you, although you specialize in Crude Oil and I mainly trade ES, but every system I have designed in past four years have been number one priority of not losing often and not caring as much to making profits. Matter of fact, I have worked hard with ES to do 25-55% of trades to be plus one tick because of averaging down based on weekly stats. LOL, I don't move stops at all in ES, I don't use them in any of the indexes, Crude Oil you have to as it runs fast. I have spent first 26 years designing methods based on making profits, those are now automated, but I like not losing often, much less stress. But as a scalper, trading an hour and done, could rack up 25 trades. Even the options system been working on for two years getting very close to what I can live. But my long term models normally lose 75-85% of the futures trades and still do ok.
I think young traders don't have the knowledge of what it takes to reduce losses and control one's "hoggish" tendencies to go for homerun trades than take consistent smaller profits in ES. Crude oil is very much a Support/Resistance market, so bigger gains can be had but of course at a cost of more smaller losses cause much more slop in day session. There are always trade offs.
