never wait to see if something will happen..just because you thought it might! if you had held your initial though..based on what you were looking at..and not intuition..or any other shite..then you would have been correct to short..a few times actually..and would have made a nice few $$ in the down move swingtrading can be very profitable..but best to use some profits that have been already banked..and..you either win or lose..either way it does not and should not matter to your overall trading plan there are buckets of $$$ to be emptied out each and every day..week..month..year in the stock market..how many you actually empty will depend on how much work you are willing to do and how much $$$ you have in the bank TO
looking at the on the second paragraph, when it looks like it is going down.....relative to what? you can have a 1min moving up with raging green bars but it is contained within a 10min huge move that is red which is in a 30min bar that is green. what time frame is the direction of price being dictated in a day trade in order to tell you what direction you should be in? if you literally traded price moving up and down by the penny, it wouldnt be what I am thinking you are talking about.