Low of Day Set III
Less than 0.01% of traders had both the insight and execution skill to capture today’s post-2:15 PM long — not just seeing it, but acting on it while every sell algo was firing. The tape was textbook bearish: lower highs, full-body red candles, VWAP breaks — yet price refused to follow through. That’s where the edge lived — in recognizing that the true low was never retested, and every flush was met with silent, strategic absorption. This wasn’t a trade for the mechanically trained — it was for the few who could read what didn’t happen, and trust that the market had already tipped its hand. Most followed the script; a rare few rewrote it.
At surface level, every algorithmic sell signal triggered exactly as expected — . But price failed to follow through on nearly every flush attempt after the initial breakdown. This wasn’t a coincidence — it was evidence of bears running out of ammunition and buyers absorbing systematically.
Each downside extension was met with a persistent bid. As a result, longs remained trapped, especially from earlier attempts. But those same trapped longs ironically created shallow downside follow-through, which in turn opened the door for risk-defined long entries — even as the dominant narrative screamed sell.
We didn’t get the clean “slingshot” rally into the close — market structure was too distorted by earlier liquidation. But for those who recognized that the selling had reached exhaustion while price never violated the LOD, the afternoon window offered some of the best risk-reward long setups of the day.
FYI, I suspect happy hour was created for the handsome hobos. Because they get 50% off and all the ‘happy’ - LMAO!