Category: Pre-open

Wed’s attempt to extend the multi-session decline was contained through its open, as was Thu’s proxy attempt. That enabled the 2-Gap rule’s influence to the track price back up to…
Ongoing ineffectual optimism had accompanied the multi-session decline while producing daily lower lows and lower highs. Iran headlines rescued Wed’s bearish bias-down in time to reverse its influence. Pre-NVDA optimism…
Mon’s and Tue’s failed bounces and lower lows reflects ineffectual optimism, which is potentially bearish from a contrarian perspective. This includes the ineffectual optimism of Tue’s 7354 session lows stopping…
Globex initially tried to extend Mon’s final hour rally, but its reaction has almost entirely retraced back to Mon’s late low. Recall the final hour was being entered on the…
A couple of intraday uplegs didn’t prevent Fri’s expiration from ultimately honoring the 1st-15’s bearish projection of its brief yet discernible downtrend. The intraday probes above their prior highs were…
Back above 7473 would start to signal the potential for that rubber band snap back up. Otherwise, back under 7448-7453 would target 7431, and anything lower would confirm an especially…
At least an overnight retest of 7484’s borderline overbought RSIs was likely. That was replaced by the fresh highs’ complexity to require an eventual intraday retest. So, Thu’s open is…
Tue’s relentless afternoon rally peaked 5 points short of its 7439 gap-fill. That was a lot of buying pressure to expend without gaining traction for the effort, and a lot…
Mon’s pre-open, A.M. window, and noon hour dips had each held relevant support so suggest their sellers weren’t gaining traction. And each recovered higher highs to reward the buyers that…