I have been trading for quite a while and I heavily trade tradfi although most of you follow me because of crypto. Something I can recommend which I did in 2020, when markets started recovering post covid and I did not really believed in full recovery, was implementing called "anti-retard" hedge. I feel like I know quite a bit about markets how to look at different derivatives etc and can have a strong view on a market direction, but what really paid off over the years was just buying spot Bitcoin (and some other coins which unfortunately include Ethereum) alongside things like SPX, Gold and other things that have tendency to go up. Even though I solely moved to swing trading nowadays, I still believe you have much bigger edge capturing intraday moves, but your goal should be cutting the chart time as much as possible as your capital grows up.