Cubesteak thanks so much for the great advice! It's always nice to learn from traders such as yourself. After reading your reply and reevaluating the charts I realized that you're correct and with tight, efficient MM one would certainly be able to walk away from that day with a decent amount of pips. Given your suggested style of trading, and securing at least some pips for each trade, would you think it's possible to not bother with confirmation from the filters and enter trades when ASCTrend gives a signal? It appears that when ACSTrend gives signal usually there will be sufficient pips in the run to control the trade with tight MM. Actually waiting for filter confirmation seems to result in loosing critical pips in the smaller trends. As you can see in blue signal #1, entry at that point would have resulted in much more pips gained with protective MM. What's your thoughts on this? Thanks again!

Linuxser - I havent changed any of the settings from what ND posted. Only turned the grid off. The feed on those charts is interbankfx demo.