Yesterday was the first time in recent memory that many of those who ‘bought the dip’ got creamed.  Traders should keep in mind that every bearish target implies a potentially profitable short with-the-trend as well as a bottom-fishing opportunity at the target.  In a bear market, the best place to initate the short will often be on the retracement rally to the midpoint pivot rather than at the conventional point ‘x’ of the downtrend.  This will hold true for the longer time frames as well.  Assuming we’ve entered a bear market, corrective rallies will tend to fail at their midpoint pivots, and ABCD downtrends to reach or exceed their ‘D’ targets.  My experience with the dot-com boom-and-crash is that heightened volatility makes swing highs and lows even more predictable than wafting rallies or sideways chop.

Concerning this vehicle, most immediately, the night shift has pushed the futures to the exact midpoint resistance (p) of  the minor abc uptrend shown. If  p holds, this would be as expected. As I’ve implied above, bear markets tend to produce corrective rallies that get no further than p. Night owls may not get much movement in off-hours trading, but the moves themselves will be more predictable and reliable than what you’re used to.