Quote from gmst:
es is much stronger today compared to nq....It seems that AAPL is having a big effect on NQ.
In my belief (and mind you that following statement is backed by no research whatsoever), there is an important implication in such divergent indices situation:
1) Such situations make it considerably difficult to go straight long or short one index, because I "think" that reliability of setups would decrease in such situations.
Now, it should be pretty easy to test the above hypothesis - I will test this hypothesis in near future.