That's my 1st post on futures.io (formerly BMT) forum, but I've signed up almost 2 years ago. I haven't post anything before as I didn't really trade intraday before.
About me
I've started trading at 2004 on unleveraged stocks, then I've moved to Forex/CFD's EOD trading at 2009. I've been trading mainly candlestick pattern(Pinbar/Outside Bar) and also breakout with entry on first rounded retest to a level as well as fading stops on deep/single swing points, when price broke a swing point but closed inside(then entering on a close).
I'm trading just one market on M5 timeframe, which is the Bund future FGBL. Strategy applied is same as described above(excluding Candlesticks patterns) + Gomi's Market Profile and Volume Ladder
Broker
I use ProSpreads brokerage, which gives access to the underlying market as a DMA. Fix spread 0.005 tick and no other commission allow to use advantage of a tax-free spreadbetting.
Tick move is worth 1, so its 10 times less that most futures brokers offer, that will allow me to apply more flexible risk management. When I reach the stage of trading 10 per tick, I'll probably move over to one of the US futures brokers.
Data
I use free CQG demo on Ninja Trader.
Other markets
I also trade US/EU equities on daily and weekly on CMC spreadbetting account