i was swing short from 69, felt like pulling the last contract because i feel like they will run stops back to that area (67-70). will look to get reshort then i think.
75-78 after a bit of chop around the pivot. Looks like the bull flag pop may happen. watching the trans tap at the res.
Finally a perfect scalp. 1st level resistance was at 1770.25. However there were a lot of sell orders on the DOM at 1770 and 1769.75. I decided to limit in at 1769.75 for a counter trend scalp. This order got filled, and I moved my stop down a little as I took very little heat. I probably could have gotten a little bit more on this trade but wanted to make up my loss from bad trading on yesterday. To get a resistance order filled exactly at the line I think ES would need to go past it by 1 tick so normally on ES I am willingly to get in a little early. Also, I need a normal target since again price will need to go 1 tick past the target to get filled. However, I am willingly to take a loss if I don't get at least a scalping victory. Sometimes many orders are meaningless if trend is strong enough or some report came out, but I thought resistance would hold enough for a little profit. Yesterday, ES price broke through a moving average by a full candle, and I should have had a limit order higher up, but instead shorted at a possible triangle resistance that was silly since ES had already shown that it wanted to go higher even though overall trend yesterday was down. I made a tiny bit back by shorting at stronger resistance level that day. Monday, ES just moved sideways in range and I lost just 1 tick for the day, as the range was not wide enough to take profits or have main stops get hit. This type of range should not be traded unless you think eventually you will get a breakout and can pick the right side which never happened.