When your hormones settle down and your banana is sleeping in its hammock that's when you become better than the rest.
My advice, "the market is always right" and "be humble"....excellent attitudes that Traders should possess imo.
Doesn't happen all the time but when the stars align (like yesterday) you have to take advantage of it.
SOES.... I've been trading since 1997. Lately, it seems like price movement during the day (if you are daytrading) has slowed down quite a bit. At least for the way that I daytrade. It could be just the summer trading season where daytrading gets more difficult. It could be prices are topping out and price movement will be slow for all trading until some large pullback in the market happens. Or it could be a structure change. I've seen a half dozen structure changes over my 20 trading years and have had to adjust my trading process to account for these changes. cheers toucan
My guess is that with more and more algos trading, markets are becoming too one sided and lack rotations we need. The effect is slow move in one direction only interrupted by occasional small flash crashes. This could be due to the fact that once the algo get's it's bias (from the operator) it looks for opportunities on one side only. When they switch to neutral or bear then we may see some wilder moves.