Fair point, hope the levels you are talking about are all futures and not spot.
You made a point about your system working in ranges, buy support sell resistance, so would it leave out trends (agreed that only 20% trends), but that's where you can make more, like the one @7840
Yes the Daily and Weekly Levels are in Futures.
For the TRENDING trader - JUST For the Discussion purpose: If you are Day trader, whether something is Trending or not, does not matter. Except the Pair trading I very rarely carry open positions. (The SOLD Pairs need to be carried because they earn points using the time value. )
This is one of the Major stuff that I had to change / erase from my mind. The idea about the Trending and Trading the BREAKOUTs and BREAKDOWNs. My initial systems like MTP was based on this idea. And so instead of say buying Near the Support, I normally used to look for a Pivot to be formed and then wait for it to come down and then Buy the Above the Pivot and then find out that it was not a real breakout etc... So you are always in the BREAKOUT Mind and you always are looking for BREAKOUT. In the LTF, BREAKOUTs and BREAKDOWNs happen but not too often. in HTF it very rarely happens and the FEAR factor does not allows one to trade it.
So I decided to change my mind and nowadays do not trade this BO / BD systems. Even If I want to trade BO / BD, I would already taken a position and look for BO / BD. My entry is not based on BO / BD.
Let us take the example of Today.
In the morning, I mention that 7575 Futures will be support. Made low of 7560. And closed at 7593. So one could have bought below 7575 and kept a stoploss of 20 points.
As per the TRENDing or FLOW method if one follows LTF, then there is no Trade today or would have got chopped out.
If one follows HTF, then there was no trade on UP side, The only Trade was on the DOWNSIDE, below 7540 SPOT - which did not trigger. So no Trade today for TREND Trader. But where as for a Range bound trader there was at least 10-20 points.
Anyways my conclusion is better to have the Range bound mind set and make a few points than to look for TRENDs. This is just my view and one of the important decision in my 5 years. People can think about it.
For People Who want to Trade using Options Chain data in Futures also this stuff works. Get the MAX OI or COI. find the Support and Resistance. Buy near the Support and Sell near the Resistance.
Today SBIN is an example. MAX COI @ 2400-2500. 2400 is the support and 2500 is the Resistance. Buy near 2400 and SELL near 2500.