I checked a few charts most I used to trade I'm either remembering the ticker wrong or there gone can't find any good examples will try again later. I used to chart the sector aswell, so Index - if Bullish - Look for Bullish Sectors then play stocks long in those sectors, vice versa ( if you've got Margin ) ofcourse in Bearish markets. Most of the market just gets pulled around by day to day news, few bad bits of news, drags the market down, get in on slowing down then they'll spin the next bad news as good news if need be to prop it up again. Most of the moves used to happen over night. Used to be $2000 at Ameritrade min account opening balance there still around, DATEK I used sadly went!
I used to trade via them for my Daily charts 15years back, there good! MedVedQuote tracker was my live intraday charts platform.
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