ah, I see...well, I just left trading for a number of years when I realized the "reflation trade" was back on in 2009...I traded during that 2003-07 choppy uptrend and was burned out and then 2008 came and even though the markets collapsed it just left a bitter taste in my mouth knowing how "fake" everything had become in the years leading up to that...
but coming back to these markets in recent months I see a new bag of tricks and I'm adapting..smaller size, scaling in, spreading, etc...very defensive... (of course I came back for the exact thing I saw setting up prior to 8/24), but I couldn't hang on long enough to most of my bearish bets...that was a bitter pill to swallow.
