SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

[Kobe Ginobili]

Those who run the show have advanced AI/Machine learning that use a mixture of technical and psychological tactics to make it very difficult for standard otc/smallcap trading techniques which are generally extremely reliable to work. To sum it up the trader can be trading textbook 100% correct and still get blown out hence gotta have stops in as soon as I take position.

At least this is from a high frequency options daytrading perspective.

When I trade options desire maximum volatility and clear horizontal sup/res and generally small size allows me to protect that days profits/profits derived from non-SPY.

From a non pure HFT options perspective scaling in incrementally over historical key timeframes to indicate days trend ie adding "X" contracts every 5,10,15,20,30 minutes etc. mitigates the extreme "intra-minute" volatility factor.

The basic key zones on the 1 day chart generally serve as a guide yet from my observation advanced psychological strategy and AI/ML renders a lot of sound tech strategy obsolete which serves those who are behind the movement perfectly as they capture maximum capital and make it harder for others to consistently profit (all depending on strategy - I can see a multiday swing strategy scaled every 2-3 hours being a way to mitigate short term ie minute/hourly volatility.

I had strong success earlier in year on the large drops ie when market was halted had short term PUTS (off memory 3-4 days to expiry) yet once I initiated the same methodology and the mechanics shifted stopped it immediately instead of giving up profits.