Just closed long opened at 10380 yesterday at 10550 as the futures spiked up just ahead of Intel’s earnings….suspect this is going to test 10600 soon, but enough is enough (for now!)..
10min chart pattern resembles H&S with left arm reaching north……. 🙂
I don’t very often hold overnight as I prefer to trade what I can see, but my main criteria was that I would not incur a loss, and as the index had moved fairly well north of my entry at the close of yesterday, I was able to set my overnight stop to lock in a small profit – so risk was minimal/reward potential was ‘plenty’…
Trade was entered on the basis of PD bottoms on major indexes after what I thought was mainly a ‘technical’ sell off yesterday (nothing had happened to really ‘spook’ the market) and a bounce off the lower downtrend line that CM defined (also previous support level to a tanking market 2/1/04)
Other reasons:- 5th wave down on the 10min chart and yesterdays consolidation pattern between 10380/10430 gave a potential 50 point target north – sufficient to break through the upper downtrend line…..and so it happened….
Sometimes the plan comes together – but not always….! 😕