LOL TopStep, nor can you or anyone else, predict the market and that is why they didn't let you keep the position on over a crazy wild volatile weekend.
And that is exactly what I would want from a broker.
Right now TradeStation, who I am with, requires 200% of exchange margin for certain...
You're half right. We should have attacked Pakistan after we attacked Afghanistan - once they started to harbor Bin Laden. But there was no reason to attack Saudi Arabia then or now.
But the here and now is Ukraine being attacked by the Russian Bear appropriate for current market. Nice...
In TradeStation, but I would imagine Tradingview would have something similar, separate symbols $UVOLSPX and $DVOLSPC S&P Composite up and down volume with indicator (on bottom) plotting percentages of whichever is greater. I look at those naturally for eMini, and $UVOLND / $DVOLND for NQ and...
Put aside WMD and Afghanistan has a population of 40 million.
At least we had a reason to go in. Stayed too long just like the Ruskies.
Another example of where we we're attacked and responded... and Russia wasn't yet still attacked.
Might be completely missing the mark by saying this (to each their own) but I wonder how much eye "contact" upper monitors get.
I look at what I see in front of and around me. Up is when I am outside.
Although it had been in a overall downtrend Euro gapped down this afternoon (5pm EDT open) against all the major pairs USD, GBP, JPY, CHF, CAD, AUD and NZD.
While USD is kinda mixed presently.