Hey there Sharp-Shooter. I've noticed from the beginning that you only trade ES/MES (at least in here). I've started only looking at NQ/MNQ for the past 6 weeks or so. Previously I would have NQ, ES, CL, GC, and many times YM. That's a lot (at least I think so).
I learned price action on ES some years back with the Al Brooks methods (books and course). Then when I started looking at prop firms I found one of their trainings and trade room. They mostly looked at NQ with guest appearances from YM and RTY. That sidetracked me for over a year and a half. I left them and discovered the Price action I had previously learned again and started to gain some confidence that I had lost. Fast forward another year and here we are.
This leads me to observing you and ES then the discussion about the markets (notably ES and NQ) most times being correlated due to "Dark Pools", world banks, etc. happened on Friday. (That was a great discussion and I recommend anyone who hasn't read it check it out here). There are some differences in how each instrument behaves even though they have similar stories most day. NQ can have some pretty big mood swings. ES does as well of course, but for whatever reason (ES being more heavily traded...) it seems to stick to the script more often than not it just seems to take a little more or longer to change the direction of its ship.
Okay, enough of my rambling, I'll get to the short question I have that possibly is not an easy answer.
Why ES over NQ, YM or any other instrument?
It's not that I'm looking for a switch, but I'm open to it. I really like the idea of only looking at one and becoming so deeply involved with the price action that it's almost second nature to see what is most likely going on and what will probably happen next. You know, like you do day-in-day-out...