Support & Resistance levels , and moving averages are just meaningless lines on the chart.

It seems to me here that if the red line is the 200 SMA, it didn't hold as it broke hard on the last bar in the chart.
When you see a tail through a level like that, it suggests that algo's were firing off longs at the level. Of course you are free to interpret as you like.
 
When you see a tail through a level like that, it suggests that algo's were firing off longs at the level. Of course you are free to interpret as you like.
But as its dropping, it doesn't look like a tail. When it hits what ends up being the low of a bar, it looks like a solid bar. Now sure, you can use a wide stop and wait to see how the bar closes, but what if this bar ends up being 20 points high?

Your image maybe doesn't even capture the low of the bar, but if we fill it in like I did here, this is what the bar looked like at one point.

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But like I say, you can easily have a rule where you wait for the bar to close before you place a stop, but at this very moment, it certainly doesn't look like the SMA held.
 
Daily 50% retrace bounce from March low to July high...also despite Mickey's skepticism, the 200 SMA
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OK;
but he may be right to be skeptical of that TA??
Many could have been buyin' on gov shutdown speculation + OCT front run bear killer nickname. [Stock Traders Almanac=OCT bear killer nickname. ]:D:D
 
We are all different and will all trade differently. It is up to each of us to discover what gives us a recognizable defined edge. Take anything you read with a healthy dose of skepticism (especially on ET). Always study and test any concept or tool before you try and use it.
Will do, sir.
 
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