The prediction was basically higher prices. I don't have a strong opinion on the close, but generally, a day like today closes green. Not always, but more often than not. The market seems to be 'loose' at the moment, though, so best to stay nimble, I think?
80 % of the time on 'a day like this'. Today, it was unchanged at the tick. Not too often you see that.
Wait! Hold on now. I thought you said 1) what happened in the past and 2) actually trading based on 1 are completely different.
My point though was that at that moment it was an outside day up. It could have very well ended up as an outside day down.
It remains to be seen, but the trendline is holding up pretty well as you can see on this hourly chart and the head fake we had yesterday looks like the final exhaustion.