First I would not presume to speak for Dr. Steenbarger, so if you have a specific question about his strategy, please leave him the same question you posted here.
That said this is a sell into strength strategy and buy into weakness. So the underlying assumption that a move a bit higher represents a 'loss of steam' seems to make sense.
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