Quote from [Proximo]:
Reasoning?
If we touched R1 then turned would we not have more longs that need to cover.
Quote from Lawrence Chan:
When R1 and previous day high are reasonably far apart like today, touching R1 gives previous day high a chance to act as support ... much harder to move the mkt lower.
Now previous day high acted as resistance (due to w. upthrust against it this morning), then ORL, previous close all can act as resistance to force the mkt lower.
Lately, most of the attempts to break PP failed. Will see what happen this time.