The First Break Out Of An Inside Day Is Usually The Wrong One

Monday again. Hope you had a great weekend.

The Inside Day

The first break is usually the wrong one, and that is oddly useful.

The first break out of an inside day is usually a lie, which is a strange thing to be able to rely on, but there we are.

Inside day to finish Friday off last week, and it sets us up nicely for a pop out of that narrow range of price movement.

We commented on this pattern on crude oil last week but we do see it many places. On stock indexes I typically anticipate the side that breaks first is often a false direction, and the real move to then be in the opposite direction.

The move in to the range, or inside bar, was bearish last week, so I’d expect a bear continuation 65 to 70% of the time.

Interestingly crude oil doesn’t see the false breaks in the same way, and we see that has also popped already overnight. Right idea from last week, just another pesky overnight starter move.

Market Snapshot

Everything already happened, and nobody was told.

The move has already taken place. It occurred overnight, without notice, and the regular session will be informed in due course.

• ES 7,683.00, -0.06%. Flat, meandering.

• YM 53,368, +0.07%. Sat under the NATHs.

• NQ 29,241.25. Still the laggard of the group.

• RTY 3,021.4, +0.01%. See below.

• VIX 15.88, +4.89%. 16 is my purple line and I’m still watching for a nudge above it.

• GC 4,698.6, +0.79%. Another new high.

• CL 84.88, -2.03%. Popped overnight, see below.

• BTC/USD 77,236.74. Crypto is grinding sideways after the whole crypto market took a monumental move higher on last Wednesday’s moves.

SPX – Flipped bullish on Friday, and I expect it back the other way.

SPX TnT swings did flip to bullish on Friday, and for the brave souls who held over the weekend, well done.

Given we are down around 10 points, effectively meandering sideways in the premarket as I write this, then I’d think there would be a profit to be had near the opening bell for the regular market. Although with the global exchange, cashing out can be any time now.

Given my bias I’d expect prices to flip back to bearish soon.

RUT – Similar, but the bear tag might land here first.

RUT is doing something similar, although we might get the bear Tag n Turn first here, as the bolly bands are quite close and Russell doesn’t seem to be pushing lower as much in the premarket.

In both cases, a morning push higher before an eventual turn lower seems like, as for most of Aug, this is the flow of the day we have seen most commonly.

Crude Oil – The break happened. Overnight. Again.

Crude oil shows that range break, or inside day break, depending on which time frame you are looking at.

Once again the move developed overnight, so I’m just waiting to see if there is a push higher that will allow me to join the fun, or if I need to wait for another opportunity.

Premium Poppers – A mixed bag, and a good week regardless.

Last Friday’s Premium Poppers, the community again pulled a mixed bag of premium. But on the whole the week was again awesome. Well done team.

• James D. “Took the SPX Bear LP for a win :-)”

• Keith F. “got stopped on the PP today. still, 3 out of 4 for the week ain’t bad”

• Eddy “Didn’t trust the SPX bear BO1, but took the bear BO2, only to be stopped out :-)”

• Keith F. “The third BO might be okay….but I think I’m done for the day.”

• Don E. “Lost RUT Bear, won SPX Bull LP. Tough market to trade”

• James D. “Hanging in for an end of day drop in SPX….”

• Bill S. “Made my 50% on SPX. Closed at 1:00 pm CDT. Shorted the 7685 at 8:57 am. About 0.20 delta.”

And a note from me on the day: use the trigger bar’s highs or lows to get you in.

Fun Fact

Since the bolly bands came up.

John Bollinger did not name Bollinger Bands. Not deliberately, anyway.

They went nameless for years. Then Bill Griffeth, an on air host at the Financial News Network, pointed at the chart during a live segment and asked what he called them. Bollinger’s own account of it is that he was stumped, and said the first thing that came to mind.

So the most widely used volatility indicator in the world is named after a man who was put on the spot on live television and panicked.

Meme of the Day:

Trade well,

T2 Markets

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