It just turned out to be jitter. But it was epic jitter, and broke higher for a whopping 30 points up. Massive. Epic.
TA simply cannot work until we have resolution on the trade spat. IMHO.
The market is coiled up like a spring so tight that I am forced to avoid trading. I'm even scared to try scalping this thing. When it blows, it will blow big.
But I ain't gonna' pull a B1S2 move and say it will happen in "the next three hours." That reeks of insider information, and it turned out to be WRONG. So unless ya'
truly got insider info, like Trump or Xi's plans on announcements, putting timestamps on the move is a fool's errand.
Nah, I'll wait for something from the newsverse before making a commitment.
P.S. For the sake of honesty, all is fair in love and war...I went long Thursday afternoon on what seemed to be a continuing uptrend in MNQ(Which is NQ).
And sure enough, the thing was down by about 220 points(?) yesterday. Today it's recovered back some, but I'm still down 155ish points on the thing. So I do have a commitment but that was when things were going my way again. But the trade war bit me, AGAIN, for the third time in three weeks.
All it takes is trade war news now to move this thing. No more earnings, no more data. Next big one will the FOMC tomorrow at 2PM ET.