And once again the 4:00 to 4:15 time spot gives us a new low for the day and we're back to where I was at the start of the blather du jour. Now there will be a 15 minute nap and then the Globex day starts anew at 16:30 EST with a longer nap coming up from 17:30 EST till 18:00 EST during which time things are 'maintainenced'. Like Andy Rooney says, "Didja ever wonder why they picked these particular times to do this stuff?". lj That's it for me today. I have to go out now and find a 'real' job as my beloved Jen calls it.
Pre-Flight Check. Been struggling with it for a while now. Seems like it should be something relatively uncomplicated, sort of rules of thumb they have in high school physics electricity course. But I must have really dumbed down since then , or solution exists which has not been mentioned in these threads and presumed to have been understood by everybody. Sort of like if1/if2 solution - Mak claimed to make money with it and DOM consistently. To me it has been chop experience every time I attempted it.
FWIW and IMHO and since you haven't had other responses, I started using 24 hour charts for the ES a while back and would not return to guessing games with 'gaps.' - palinuro