Quote from Notes123:
Also, did you see the contradiction in your own advices of "wait for the emotions to play out" and "you don't even have to know"?
No, I did not see any contradiction.
Emotions play out at the market open and once the opening noise settles down, you can let price take you into your trade.
"The nice thing about price action trading is you don't even have to know what 243.36 means; all you have to know is that buyers really wanted it there and if price breaks the high of that opening 5-min bar, you have an opening range breakout to work with in the direction of the recent trend based on the daily chart and if price breaks the low of that opening 5-min bar, you have a reason to go short."
Do you see the value of having no bias?
If you know CMG, then you know 243.30 is the previous pivot low in an uptrend. The reward:risk for placing a limit buy orders around that level with a tight protective stop is pretty darn good, because levels get tested; price has memory.
If you have no idea why buyers snapped up CMG at 243.36, but you see that opening 5-min price bar, the reward:risk of buying just above the high of that bar with a tight stop (the breakout will either run if the buying is for real or fail quickly if it's not) is also pretty darn good.
I'm happy you make a lot of money in extended hours trading because I like to see traders succeed. I never found extended hours trading in stocks to be useful. There's nothing of value I can obtain in extended hours that I can't obtain in RTH. There's a downside to EH trading in that stops only trigger in RTH with my platform.