It's very true trend days can be rude. It always seems too high or too low, bars are usually bigs and it's difficult to enter.
I've used to fight the trend countlessly .... especially when I have a bias on the other side of the market.
A very effective way to manage a big trend like today is to trade off the 1min chart. It offers many bull flags and shallows pull backs that offered small risk entries.
I've found the 5 min chart much less useful in this kind of market.