ES Journal - 2023/2024

May not see any big moves for today's session. There appears to be a slight bias for a pop higher by end of day, but I'm not extremely confident in that outcome. More of a mixed bag as opposed to yesterday which had very strong probabilities of an up move.
In my view there was a fresh buy signal in this uptrend that occurred on the 15 minute chart at 12:15 Eastern.
 
I'm in same boat -- I don't look at volume, except as a breadth-related indicator (i.e., advancing volume, etc.).

Same here. As far as instruments like ES and NQ I have not been able to get much besides unreliable signals. With so much hedging, arbitrage, and other noise I feel like price action alone is a better fit for me. In the past, I have found value in using it for equities & options.
 
In my view there was a fresh buy signal in this uptrend that occurred on the 15 minute chart at 12:15 Eastern.

I'm just looking at the day type and current behavior. Range bound and slow.

If we get a 57.25 print from here I'm probably calling it a day as there's a good chance the next pop will fail around 59. We can get that late session melt-up, but probabilities aren't strong enough for me today. This is day trading only of course.

50 % support and VWAP clustered here around 45/57 on ES. Would be nice if it holds and we don't go all the way to the LOD. Yes, I'm long...
 
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Same here. As far as instruments like ES and NQ I have not been able to get much besides unreliable signals. With so much hedging, arbitrage, and other noise I feel like price action alone is a better fit for me. In the past, I have found value in using it for equities & options.

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With so much hedging, arbitrage, and other noise I feel like price action alone is a better fit for me. In the past, I have found value in using it for equities & options.

Exactly. That's why I've always struggled a bit with the concept of volume analysis on index futures. That's not to say it's useless or anything like that. I do pay attention to volume, but I'm a bit cautious against reading too much into it.

I do use a faster volume chart as my fast chart, though.
 
If we get a 57.25 print from here I'm probably calling it a day as there's a good chance the next pop will fail around 59.

50 % support and VWAP clustered here around 45/57 on ES. Would be nice if it holds and we don't go all the way to the LOD. Yes, I'm long...

Done. Now, watch us rally... :)

PS: Not the best entry, so it was a close call. 10 points is my maximum stop on ES, but I prefer to keep closer to 5.

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