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ER2 trying to put a double top in this key zone..... stop bidding this market up....

Taking some off for a 2pt gain... letting the last piece run. This volume is frustrating.

EDIT- hah as soon as I take some off it starts rolling over.... figures
 
Well, not the week in a day on those shorts, but not bad. :) Done trading for the day unless something accelerates. YM in particular still looks unstable, imo.
 
'Market setups' are a manifestation of the market participants themselves. Sometimes they are engineered to be a setup, so that one group of participants 'trains' the market, and that same group instigates orderflow for the setup to become fruitful.

Meaning a large trading house, or trader, may artificially create a resistance level, repeatedly selling at a level, only to buy it back and break it, since stop allocation by the general market is engineered by this trader/ trading house.
 
Pit traders can only reference:

Opening Range
High
Low
Prev High
Prev Low

So they can only workoff of these variables in terms of short term memory. Most are scalpers, since scalping is the lowest risk. Not scalping as retail does paying the spread. The edge is the ability for pit traders to make the spread from floor brokers.

The pit trader who gets directional bias scalping signals from off pit market monitors have even a better edge. They will only enter bidding on the scalp and exiting on the offer. The spread will have less chance of slipping away from them.
 
wise traders love the whipsaw..there are but few of us...it is simpler to trade than hard driving run...okay, so 99 % here don't know what a real whipsaw or run is...sorry bout that.
 
Quote from porge:

wise traders love the whipsaw..there are but few of us...it is simpler to trade than hard driving run...okay, so 99 % here don't know what a real whipsaw or run is...sorry bout that.

The whipsaw/churn periods helps to fuel breakouts.
 
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