Well, you got to take what the markets give... if you are buy the dip trader, buying y'day dip could have given you 50 or so S&P pts, is that too small for you? If 50pts is nothing then I guess you took the whole of 2017 off as 5 to 6 pts in a day was all the market gave all year. Do the maths, even a market that crawls all year, a buy and hold investor gaines on average 500pts on the year, a trader that takes 5 or 6 points every day can triple that. so even 5pt move is not "nothing". Besides, you can scale... if you want 50pts profit on a near flat market then do 5 contractracts at once. If you're waiting for the 100pt dips to tade, you might well be buying into a correction unless a black swan caused the dip (a TA signal might not differentiate between the 2)
Rickshaw's absence in Q4 2018 was well-timed, no reason to give him guff about it. He learned his lesson from Q1 2016 when he tried the gimmicky overnight magic trades and market was in a similar acute decline.
It is better for a man to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Let's call it a snake market... it sneaks up on you, gives you a hell of a bite, then stares at you in defiance. or A fox market... can outsmart you every time with its quick moves