Find out how to determine the market direction of the trend with unusual volume and price when day trading S&P 500 futures without any technical indicators.

Check out the video for a complete walk through of the market analysis of S&P 500 futures (ES) for 6 Jan 2021 trading session. In this video, you will find out the market recap during the last session and a trade review in the three-minutes timeframe (including entry, exit and the rationale behind). Going forward, I will cover the bias, the key levels to pay attention to, my trading plan for the session later.

Timestamps

  • 0:52 Market recap.

  • 4:20 Trade review.

  • 6:55 Bearish market direction.

  • 7:20 Unusual volume.

  • 10:20 Compare the unusual volume.

  • 12:30 Wyckoff Effort vs results.

  • 15:00 Trade entry opportunity.

  • 17:45 Current stock market outlook.

Watch my market analysis video in the last session if you haven’t in order to better relate to the market recap and the trade review.

Bias — neutral (Day trading); bullish (long term).

Key levels — Resistance: 3770, 3720; Support: 3670–3680.

Potential setup — Look for potential reversal at the key levels.

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