The First Trade & Pre-open Tour Recording… Refueling?

Proper context can start the day with a solid win and make all the difference.

DAILY SCHEDULE
First, watch the pre-open Tour recording HERE <<==
Then, meet in the chaRTroom here by 9:15 ET for updates and Q&A

Through the prior close…
Thursday night’s 2626.00 lows had been probed momentarily by 9 points. A pre-open bounce had tested 2658.00. The open’s potential Isolation setup failed Rather than establish a range, the wide swings released their energy at Friday’s 2650.00 open through its 2588.00 cash session close. Futures bounced 9-11 points into the weekend. Nearly two weeks of decline had finally returned to the original downleg’s 2694.75 intraday low, which is still the Pivotal Low — i.e. the low prior to the actual low.

Overnight action’s new info…
The word over the weekend was that progress is being made in negotiations on trade with China. Nothing definitive, but it was enough for one of the worst intraday drops to re-open only slightly down at 2595.00. At first, the overnight crowd was tentative. Dipping a couple of points was recovered to a fresh post-open high. It reacted down to a fresh post-open low at 2591.00, just 5 points from from Friday’s low, and certain oblivion below it. But the next hour eked its way back up to post-open highs. And continued. Extending higher overnight to 2636.00 has been ranging back down to Friday morning’s — and Thursday night’s — 2626.00-2627.00 lows as support.

If, then…
This is not a durable recovery. It might be the beginning of a bottoming pattern, which I doubt, but that would require holding a test of the gap back down to Friday’s close. And double-digit overnight rally must produce another double-digit leg to even attack Friday’s last relative highs. Still, the overnight reversal could extend intraday if its recovery above 2626.00-2627.00 is maintained. Similar to an Isolation setup, the interim price action can fuel a short-squeeze. Alternatively, relentless overnight trending often reverses its trend at the open. Regardless, the opening 15 minutes of volatility tends to establish either of these two setups, so we should know today’s direction early.

First Trade…
[Click here to view the Bias parameters] Exiting the open at 9:45 above 2627.00 would be likely also to exceed the 2624.50 bias-up target through 10:15 to renew the bias-up signal.