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01/10/2019 Market Recap

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01/10/2019 Market Recap

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Renewed strength today so I see no sign of top yet. The steady stairs down volume is a concern though.
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Re: 01/10/2019 Market Recap

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SUMMARY:

You can call it trend day or range day, the sharp pullback from 1 pm to 2 pm and the yesterday's high as resistance made trade not easy anyway so I didn't even bother to run the IB trading platform today.

NOTE:

By here it's actually looked like an uptrend day but without taking the yesterday's high out I'd avoid buying so still a range day to me (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3252&p=264049#p264049).

The pullback at least proved because of the yesterday's high (as resistance) I didn't long was right (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3252&p=264067#p264067). I actually thought it's going to test the day low, gladly I didn't short. Trading a range day is nothing but a guess (luck). Why not scalp? The only problem is where the stop loss is? Scalp target usually is 1 point, so in theory the stop loss should be at the most 1 point as well, otherwise you'd have negative risk reward ratio. I just don't like the 1 point stop loss, no logic in it therefore it's nothing but a bet of luck. Feel free to let me know if my idea is wrong.

No conclusion drawn from the close. Now I gave up guessing when SPY would have a day or two pullback, maybe it's the sign it finally will have a day or two pullback?
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