I am looking for opportunities to scalp/trade when there is indecision in the market…for example before powell speech bitcoin was ranging so I made some good profits trading within the range...are there any other opportunities when there is indecision in the market apart from hours before Powell speech?
It's hard to decide which news will pump or dump the market, usually very influential news appear once in a year and you can't be with news websites all the time. I've also noticed that every news website posts news later, after the market correction but the fact is that some people have access to news before they are published.
Scalpers will depend more on indicators than news. Scalping is just a waste of time in my opinion. The riskiest trading types are scalping and day trading. Most traders that fall in this categories are losing while swing traders and holders are very patient and make more money from trading. They are also not time consuming like scalping and day trading. If you are using fundamental analysis to trade just as you explained and not trading often, you are not really scalping in my opinion because you do not trade frequently.
Scalping sounds good in the imagination but in reality, it's a very dangerous trading strategy. The worst trading strategy for me was scalping but it wasn't much different from day trading. When you do scalping, things usually don't go as planned and then the nightmare begins but let me give you a small correction. Scalping and day trading aren't as dangerous as leveraged trading. When you turn the leverage into the game or start playing with futures you enter into the most dangerous zone where you are on the line of either becoming rich or becoming poor.