Short 969.75, stop at 971.50... no immediate target although 963 looks good. :edit:stopped out tonight... wasn't nearly as clean as a setup as last night.
Although your parallel universe looks interesting, and I would like to visit it someday, in SDD we drop for 90-120 minutes then sideways for 2-3 hours then further drop. Instead of that, yesterday we were crossing the previous day's closing line like 6-7 times just in the first 2 hours, a classic sideways pattern. Even at 1:20 we were still at zero, then we went a bit down and properly rallied back closing on -2.45, a doji, which is a sideways pattern.(Dow was -5 pts, Nasdaq -3, perfect dojis) The day's range was a bit more to the downside, between +7 and -10 pts, so I was wrong on that one, although correct in the first 3 hours,because it was more to the upside...
What a beautiful IHS http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=CME_ES.Z08.E&v=i I guess those those T day boys like obama.
Afternoon sell off ... that is an interesting thought. Not sure how the votes will be counted and if we have something like real-time monitoring of the election results, that will be very interesting!
I was looking into the option prices on ES for a multi-month play. It turns out that the volty priced in made doing spreads a much lower probability play. Usually at extreme high VIX selling has an advantage, but what is extreme high/low VIX these days?