Does anyone trade the YM or ES outside of standard cash session market hours? Is there less manipulation from the algos outside of the cash market hours?
I trade both in pre-market, and I don't think about what is manipulation or what isn't. I think the best thing to do is just study past behavior and make trades based on those patterns. If it's being manipulated in the present, then it was manipulated on all those charts you studied from the past too.