"It's Deja vu all over again" I agree this is not the standard Monday.
1. Friday the FOMC injected a large amount of money into the banks using two overnight lending programs. So quantitative tightening is over while they jawbone about interest rates.
2. Everybody and their cousin who is paid to write is penning articles about the AI companies calling vendor financing "investments".
3. Beating retail side analyst earnings estimates is not making stocks take off even though retail is the force driving the market.
4. Elliott wave counters that I follow are patiently waiting for a significant top that will lead to a multi month pullback.
I am, once again, glad to be a day trader.