"this market is a waste of time to trade intraday, it's been like this for months now I wasted my time this week making a tiny trade in SPY to catch what I saw as almost a sure-thing bottom only to see the market plunge 20 S&P points lower . Eventually I averaged down much lower and made money, but the size was so small it was ridiculous." what you mean to say is "it's a waste of time because my methodology has no edge in this market" this has been a dream market for me. don't extrapolate from individual results to generalities. that you might not be able to trade this market might be true. that others can't is demonstrably false.