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Markets will do what they need to do to inflict the most pain and surprise the most people.

I wouldn't do it every day but the point is the big moves are after hours.

This is true -- yet folks still don't want to hold because of "overnight risk." If you know how to read the market, this is key. It's a lot less stressful and you're essentially making money while you sleep instead of stressing while looking at your screens during the day. Larry Williams and...

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What changed your mind?

What was your basis for going short?

Are you already short or shorting at the close?

The news always is needed to explain the move. Market bottomed last week.

TNA and RTY (futures) are the plays today.

A blessing in disguise?

It's more profitable to predict market moves than predict governmental action.

I try not to think about what's going on in the world and just trade the chart in front of me and maintain maximum flexibility.

Easier for me to comment since I'm already long but as of now, I'm treating this as a decent bottom and giving this room to move higher. Looks like completion of A-B-C.

Good question! Be wary of folks looking at the market through their own personal biases.

I have always viewed tape reading as so much more than than time and sales. Heck, using candlestick charts can be considered a form of tape reading.

i have been reading the market with some of the others here - establishing long index positions (futures and ETFs) on Thursday and Friday. Thursday ended 4 consecutive days of bearish seasonality. Technically, the support levels made sense and there still is a lot of skepticism about this...

"The biggest error short-term traders make is thinking they can trade every day the same way; essentially, that all trading days are the same. That’s not correct." -- Larry Williams

Was your issue with TD Ameritrade or the Think or Swim platform with TD Ameritrade?

Best wishes to you. Whatever works for you. One concept that I have to remind myself sometimes is to let the market do the heavy lifting. Friday was a perfect example where once I knew the low was in, I just let it go -- took the dog for a walk and then went down to the basement and worked...