The first entry in this journal. The strategy runs on NQ, in and out continuously with fixed profit targets. On NQ alone the median hold is 18 seconds; including the slower MNQ side it is 34 seconds.
The interesting part is not the number but its shape: average win and average loss are nearly equal, so the entire edge comes from hit rate. With this session's win/loss pair, breakeven sits at 51.5% — the session hit 73.8%.
At 11:50 there is a cluster worth watching: four consecutive shorts, all entered at 30,945.25 and all covered at 30,942.50, 2.75 points each, inside 95 seconds. Price held a narrow band and the same level paid four times.
The MNQ side went the other way: 10 round trips, median hold 328 seconds — eighteen times slower — and it finished negative. Same trader, same day, different tempo.