I honestly have Padu on ignore because I don't want to keep reading negative posts...
The thing for me is that because I am so good at keeping a track of every trade, saving every chart, when I review, I clearly see that the trades aren't where I think they should go. In the moment, something else happens, and the trades that I took are obviously not where I want them. I have a very good idea of what I want to do, but the chart, with my entries, clearly shows a deviation.
Case in point (5 second chart on NQ). I short at A, but I know don't want to be shorting the break of swing low (yes it sometimes works, but not often enough, and there are better places to enter). It clearly fails, but you sometimes get rewarded for it, that it develops a bad behavior. I do the same thing at B, convinced its going lower, but of course the trade entry sucks. The second short close to B is better.
At C, I'm very happy with the entry, but of course its a tiny profit. You could just slide up the stop incrementally, but sometimes you miss the 10 points and have to stop out at break even or even take a loss, which might have initially been a win... but sometimes you get 20 or 30 points profit. So you have to balance out the potential for a +20 trade with just taking +10 or having to end up with 0 even if you could have gotten +10.
At D, its such a shit late entry that I exit right away. The double bottom, at a key level, is clear, and yet I wait until its so much higher to enter again. Its at least 15 or 20 seconds too late, and this lateness is exactly what sets up all the problems that you outline in your list.
