Quote from cnms2:
You probably heard the advice: trade with the trend (or stay out). All your three charts show QQQQ in up trend. By entering short here you're picking a top. You may be right, but you could also choose to stay out. You don't have to trade QQQQ now.
Price action includes thrusts, reversals, resumes, retracements, congestion / convergence / centering. The probability of success diminishes from left to right in this list, so as your skill level improves you can take trades beyond thrusts (trade with the trend).
thanks for your comments cnms - I really like how you classifed the success probabitities on ' thrusts, reversals, resumes, retracements, congestion / convergence / centering ' ... is there any material you've come accross lately on pure price action that you can recommend ? thanks.