just EOD shorts protecting their gains and not becoming short in the hole when the market is too far from value
at the beginning of the day after a market gaps down inventory often has to adjust up first continue its true path down
same thing end of day that inventory adjusting because it was too short too far from value
just a balancing inside day. we will probably gap down sunday
the yellow arrows on the chart indicate excess highs and lows where the short term auction reverses direction. after multiple candles you get an excess high or low. That candle can be negated by another candle
a normal bull market would have filled the spy gap to 2550 willam oneill does not even trade bear markets for the most part