You are on point with you analysis but for me personally I do more research around the project to see if there is something big happening soon. It proved for me to be better then only to focus on charts. As for leverage trading I do that at x10 and I always put a stop loss at -1.5% and take profits around 2% or more it depends of situation. For leverage I focus more on charts but usually coins track BTC so you can go by that if you don't want to go any deeper in it.