Sounds like a lot of day trading to me. Almost all of my money is traded from the daily charts with the goals that I posted the other day. I only made a few trades a year. Last year, SPY and QQQ both only had 4 pull backs that got my attention. Just want to protect from the big pull backs.
I do have a smaller account for my play money that I trade the 60min and 15min charts. My goal is to make 1% per week. Some months I do that, but not all months. But getting better at it. I try to trade as much as I can EOD (end of day) as I am in and out much of the day. I am always around for the open.
When you say, "try to make 1% profit every day, on equity used", that always takes me back to the guys who will post that they made 100% on an option trade. What really matters is how did it affect your account. For me, my bottom line measurement is the gain to my account.
Trade the Charts and not the Heart - Expect the trend to continue until it doesn't - Realtime is the real deal