Markets
Wall Street’s stock sell-off intensified in a major way Monday as concerns mounted over the health of the US economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell over 1,000 points. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was crushed by more than 3.4%. The S&P 500’s (^GSPC) losses cascaded nearly 3% in its worst day since 2022, capping its worst start to any month since 2002.
Wall Street’s “fear gauge” — the CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) — touched its highest level since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, before retreating. Treasury yields fell, with the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX) hovering near 3.8%.
Source: Yahoo Finance
Economic Calendar
S&P 500
Prior Session was Cycle Day 1: Today’s session was a clear “Ass-Whooping” (technical analysis term)…plain and simple. Price surpassed all CD1 “normal” levels and established a new cycle low at 5120. This level coincided with a buy response at the Weekly 50 ema, as well as Anchored VWAP as noted in X-Tweet. Range was 225 handles on 3.261M contracts exchanged.
…Transition from Cycle Day 1 to Cycle Day 2
This leads us into Cycle Day 2: Normally we would be anticipating MATD rhythms for this cycle day, and we still do, although the challenge is determining accurate parameters to outline potential edges. As such, we’ll defer to Mr. Market to be our guide for this session.
Note from Yours Truly:
As mentioned in the PTG Live Trading Room, Job #1 is to Manage $Risk…Job #2 >>> refer to Job #1. Keep in mind, nobody is “forcing” you to trade an environment that does not match your risk tolerance and trade strategy, particularly if they have not been “stress-tested” under the current conditions. IF this is the case for you, THEN best course of action is “in-action”…Sitting on Hands until conditions return back to some level of “normalization” that adheres to YOUR Trading Plan. BE SMART…Trading is a business and as such we are here to make a return on our investment monies and precious time. NOT being Bronco Cowboys!
Know Thy Plan! Our discipline of maintaining positioning that is aligned with market forces continues to serve us well, so stay the course.
As such, scenarios to consider for today’s trading.
Bull Scenario: Price sustains a bid above 5255, initially targets 5315 – 5330 zone.
Bear Scenario: Price sustains an offer below 5255, initially targets 5220 – 5200 zone.
PVA High Edge = 5252 PVA Low Edge = 5197 Prior POC = 5204
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Nasdaq 100 (NQ)
Prior Session was Cycle Day 1: Today’s session was a clear “Ass-Whooping” (technical analysis term)…plain and simple. Price surpassed all CD1 “normal” levels and established a new cycle low at 17351. Range was 1039 handles on 917k contracts exchanged.
…Transition from Cycle Day 1 to Cycle Day 2
This leads us into Cycle Day 2: Normally we would be anticipating MATD rhythms for this cycle day, and we still do, although the challenge is determining accurate parameters to outline potential edges. As such, we’ll defer to Mr. Market to be our guide for this session.
Know Thy Plan! Our discipline of maintaining positioning that is aligned with market forces continues to serve us well, so stay the course.
As such, scenarios to consider for today’s trading.
Bull Scenario: Price sustains a bid above 18198, initially targets 18445 – 18555 zone.
Bear Scenario: Price sustains an offer below 18198, initially targets 18103 – 17994 zone.
PVA High Edge = 18198 PVA Low Edge = 17823 Prior POC = 18103
NQ Chart
Trade Strategy: Our tactical trade strategy will simply remain unaltered…We’ll be flexible to trade both long and short side from Decision Pivot Levels. Continue to focus on Bull/Bear Stackers and Premium/Discounts. As always, remaining in alignment with dominant intra-day force increases probabilities of producing winning trades.
Stay Focused…Non-Biased…Disciplined ALWAYS USE STOPS!
Good Trading…David
“Knowing is not enough, We must APPLY. Willing is not enough, We must DO.” –BR
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