Why this trade? Did you feel like you had to trade? Entering a short 3 pts under yesterdays low is very tough and you better have a very good reason. I think most of the folks here making money look for some sense of value. The ES looks for fairly conspicuous targets. If you are starting out, identify them and trade from there. E.g. yesterdays hi, lo, the last hour hi, lo, the close.
I exited my daytrade off R10 from 05 but kept the swing on. The long last night should have trailed the stop when it went +3 after entry but I did not. The good thing is my swing trading size is roughly 1/4 of my intraday size so I made my loss back already and am still up around 30 points for the week. My problem with swing is that I let the swing position give me bias.
Naz-100 up/dn volume ... they just keep selling ... very orderly ... while the dax flirts with a breakout over last night's high frankly, i'm puzzled