Looking at the hourly, 30 and 15 min chart side-by-side, I see that working only in the direction of the hourly trend is a lot easy on the nerves.... mistakes are forgiven and targets are met with less effort... most importantly the drawdown is significantly reduced... making intraday trading dear(er).
I just may resolve to taking longs only (inline with hourly). It has helped me a lot in that past few days as the range is getting narrower.
Will take short entries only when there is an added reason, like prev day HOD rejection with a clear trigger of 15min pivot.