Ahhhhhhh! Had my alerts turned off and missed a profitable ES and YM trade. Oh well, been a great day so far, why take the chance to ruin it in the last half hour. Heck of a run up huh?
FTSE & DAX have candlesticks open & close above 20ma on the 240 min chart, ES & NQ remain below 20ma, therefore until they do I do not view 240 as bullish, obviously once there are closures above 20ma on all 4, then I will agree with B1S2, I believe that to be a safer bet, today markets showed that they weren't ready to rally yet. So the question is - do FTSE & DAX try & show us the near term direction for the US markets or are they simply trying to save their own asse(T)s?
If the indices are red on a T day, sometimes intraday they will revert to green. The odds become even higher when the negative is seen on a gap down or is seen before 10:30 est.
Significance of any signal is based on your personal convictions, it looks like I will be shorting DAX soon. I am still not convinced until I see price confirmation on 240.
EDIT: Signal not as strong as I would have liked to see, short DAX now, stop above HOD