Hey Aaron, awesome analysis, I love feedback from traders as it helps me see my blind spots.
1) I would definitely agree with you, when I began trading I was focused on how much cents I was willing to risk and it was small. Since January when I started using Kyles hotkeys, I don't worry anymore about what the actual dollar amount per share is that I risk, because I have my hotkey's set to .33% of my account per trade or 3 trades within a day for ~1% of my account.
2) At the open I have a very defined set of criteria that I select stocks for my Orb strategies. This has been based of my performance and what I do well at. I am not comfortable with stocks above $50 at the open, they just move to much for me. After 30 minutes, I switch my layout and watch the same 9 different stocks daily along with 3 of the best stocks on the gappers that did a good move at the open. ($AMD, $MU, $JD, $SQ, $ROKU, $MSFT, $QCOM, $AAPL, and $NVDA).
3) I have 3 strategies I trade. 5 and 15 min Orbs that I have been doing for a year and within the last couple of months I have been working on a new afternoon strategy that involves the 9/20 crossing the 50. It did not work well in September because I did not have a good entry point identified and would get chopped up a lot; However, when I was watching Thor's Video on PLBO, I noticed my moving average crossover strategy was appearing quite often before his entry on the PLBO. So, I went back and did some analysis on my trades and found that the more often than not the ones that did work had a very similar setup to Thor's PLBO and the ones that I got stopped out on didn't. Therefore, I have layered Thor's PLBO strategy over mine and I just got done testing it in Sim. $T was the first live trade I intentionally used it on.
That was a long way of saying I scalp at the open and like trend trading after the market has been open for 30 minutes.
4) When I post my yearly recap you see that it not the money that is my issue; rather, it is I just don't like to be wrong. π