I was reading your thread about using T&S/DOM to gauge entry stuff and was checking out your trades.
In some ways we do actually trade quite similarly but with one difference - I am more happy to trade confidence for location (the thing NT was talking about).
Due to this, I tend to preference the following trades, especially early in the session:
1) Hit the reversal of the opening swing (which I suspect you don't trade)
2) Range extremes when you can see buyers/sellers have dried up (which I suspect you do trade because it languishes before reversing)
3) Volume based reversals where it is clear that somebody really doesn't want price to move below (which I suspect you also trade).
You'll note these are all reversals that normally show up within the first hr of the session so most of the time, my day is done by 90mins after RTH open.
Occasionally though I do take these types of trade which feel more like the type you and NT were advocating:
4) Entry at extreme of a rotation when the prevailing direction is clear, especially if it is building to a breakout which I will then close when I see the BO failing which it invariably does.
5) Entry at extreme of rotations when it is a trend day.
What underpins much of this is early identification of day structure with a view to identifying directional conviction asap. I get it wrong sometimes and if I'm not sure, I stay out until I am sure but I feel ES tips it's hand early on in the proceedings without having to rely on day structure to explicitly reveal itself.
