There were a few factors involved in the entry. First at close to 9 am est, I felt we were starting see a possible trend change at around the 36.65 area. Price made an initial impulse wave long of about 45 ticks...My orderflow indicators showed some decent buying going on in that move.
One of my preferred setups is the first pullback/re-entry after a fresh, new trend reversal. Keep in mind, I'm not waiting for the close of a 5 minute chart..or some lagging indicator to tell me I have a new fresh trend underway.
So price pulled back to around 36.90 from 37.10 (which was around a 50% fib pullback)..touched twice to form a W. That is one of my setup types and then my entry is on the break of the black spine. My Tick Strike order flow indicator also began to signal buy orders coming in...my 10 second volume chart shows buy volume accumulating (you can see the increase if you look at the video.) And the icing on the cake happens to be the 9:40 am time. This is a time I call the Hotzone. It is 10 minutes after the opening of the equity session..and after some initial flurry of orders in stocks..etc..often the true first move shows up. This also carries over to Cl as well. In Cl..it just often means some increased volume comes in at that time.
Hope that explains the entry.

Reading your thread very interesting progress on your trading, congrats.
Difficult day to trade CL.
Do you look at TF on days like this?, and like CL, hours you like?
I have sim trading cl on 2 range chart and like the pace,for me. Being trading other instruments like ES, NQ, sometimes CL watching times of the day, also make my day shorter.
CL and TF seem to fit me better, like momentum,volatility etc.
If you trade TF can you recorded so we can watch and learn more of your analysis trading it?
Appreciate your help.
Srq1