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Perhaps you could share with us what levels you needed to see in the S&P yesterday and this morning in order to close out short positions and/or get long? Most aggressive traders I know would not want to go through a 30 handle rally in the S&P - - - especially when it is off of an already "defined" support level in the markets ( March low ). That could do some major damage to one's capital base; depending on how big of a position they are taking relative to their capital base. If a 30 handle move doesn't get your "juices" flowing, then I would guess that you are not a "day-trader", but someone that looks at things on a WEEKLY time horizon?
Well, I can say this. If one had gone long the ES (at 3:45 pm) at 1272.50 x2 contracts, they would be down $1,047.50 at the close(with commissions), while going into tomorrow. So tomorrow will tell if this two days of news events is going to amount to a one day rally. The ES broke above the 20dma after the close, for what that's worth.