clylbw said:
Hi,
I wonder whether there was true staged bottom in today's NQ. I was getting concerned at the 13:50pm 5-minute bar, highlighted by the first orange line in the attached chart, as the volume seemed unusually high, pushing the price to close higher.
I covered my short at the 14:10pm 5-minute bar, highlighted by the second orange line. To me it looked like the end of the 5 waves from a DT; also, in terms of RR, I thought it unlikely to fall below the intraday low of 1399, but it could easily go back to 1404, so the RR seemed not right for further holding. However, the price fell to 1397.50, as indicated by the third orange line, before going back, and I fell uncomfortable for having missed the final part of the fall. Was there some mistake in my judgment?
Skim, if you are here, can you (or others) please tell me whether you would think the three 5-minute bars, indicated by the orange lines in the chart, as a staged bottom? They had approximately equal space between, 2 to 2.5 points, but the volume for the second bar was not substantial. In particular, how would you interpret the first bar with unusual volume?
SOCRATES, can you please tell me your opinion about today's fall between 11:35am to 14:55pm at apparently low volume?
Many thanks indeed.
Mechanical Explanation As Follows:~
The first clue to observe is that all the business that matters is practically completed by 1130 and certainly completed by midday. In the first downleg to 1399 the volume is regular, and the closings which are very important, you will observe carefully at the the middle or near bottoms of the bars. This indicates that this is contrived weakness because they abruptly come to a halt at 1030 precisely, the next bar is up. Notice that these two bars in combination are in effect a very well defined tweezer bottom, signifying the end of this controlled fall.
In the pushup that follows, you will observe that around 11, that is for a period of 15 mins, meaning the previous bar, the 11o'clock bar and the bar that follows, the volume increases.
This clumping is out of context with what the price is doing and would appear to be delayed declaration, but it is so cleverly contrived that it succeeds in sucking in the unwary to believe
that this could be the big one, not all the way to the moon, but at least to mountain top height.
It only serves to trap in last minute participants as weak holders, look carefully and you will see that the three bars at this top close on the middle or lower. The first of the three has the heaviest volumetric impulse applied to it because it is here that the stale bulls have been trapped as weak holders.
In the price cataract that unfolds the volume declines, this can only be because it is being allowed to drift downwards as a result supply overcoming demand just sufficiently to tilt it downwards in a meandering trail. The clue is that as it falls, the bears covering their shorts become more and more active as they can see the bottom coming, the target being 1399 or thereabouts.
The 1420 top at the end of short covering is steeper than the 1355 top. The 1355 top is steeper
than 1320 top. At 1455 the last remnants of what is available is finally soaked up quickly by smart buyers who understand what is going on and act immediately. The consequence of
this is that prices now begin to recover rapidly. The closings are on middle and tops now, a very different scenario to that which developed earlier in the day, and it continues to move up from there. The bottom of 1397 is touched twice. First at 1455 and then two bars later at 1505, forming a classic spaced tweezer bottom with enough volumetric impact on the first bar to turn the price round ~ see how the bars that follow from there have higher and higher closings, as the move up begins to gather momentum.
At 1600 this momentum loses its power and there is no follow through. This bar closes in the middle and the bar that follows it closes on the low on lower volume. The next bar is up, at 1408, the volume is not insignificant and this, considering there are locked in traders at high prices from the price action that was contrived that I describe earlier taking place between 1135 and 1145 could signify an unwillingness temporarily to go higher. And it is also the end of the day, so we can expect a trail off. That's it.
E and F via usual route please. Thanks.