Sorry to bounce around, but its the only way to win in this market...things change, so do I...SO, I dumped index longs at the next/last high peak, thinking it was the first A wave, but after looking at NQ and analyzing fib extensions for the A-B off the top, and the C wave we are working on, now, AND considering input from my team, I believe we are working on the "one more low" of this first leg down...being the first A of the larger pattern. Which magnitude, exactly, I cannot say, because I have it as Minute ((a)) in NQ, but as subminuette a in ES. None the less, they don't have to follow the same pattern at the same magnitude at all times, so I am comfortable with either, in either case. What I see is that the last leg of the (I will use the NQ, since it is better developed, pattern-wise) Minute ((a)), meaning the Minuette (c), and more specifically, the Subminuette v, looks to be developed as an Ending Diagonal, which would need one more 3 wave move...Micro ((A))((B))((C)) to complete. I think we got the ((A)), to day, EOD, and working on our ((B)), as I write this, and what we should see over night is a Submicro motive wave to take us to around 17437. I have covered some MNQ longs I rolled into EOD with an NQ Sept outright and one additional MNQ Sept contract. My plan is to watch it overnight, and when we get to the target area, start buying MNQ to at least hedge, if not going long, in size (for me) with what I didn't spend on taxes and satisfying my wife lol. As far as DXY goes, and how it plays here, I see the level I have been discussing as HIGHLY GUARDED, for whatever reason, which makes me think, and in line with my Index counts for ES and NQ, that a breach of that level will not be slight, but may trigger a deeper correction, even if only of Minuette Magnitude, which could make for a nice ((b)) wave of Minute degree in the NQ, for example. That theory ties all of my counts together, so I am going with that. I have removed all of my year's profit from my account and have been building a medium risk portfolio of stocks in my holding account. My plan is to catch the first leg up out of whatever bottom we strike in the next day or 2 and probably, again, dump longs and observe a b- wave back down to see if we have truly bottomed for the time being. I believe there are great opportunities, as well, in some particular individual stocks, and going long actual stocks after shorting equity futures has always been a better play for me, so I am going with that strategy. Hopefully tomorrow morning plays out as discussed, which would mean that DXY should move up, all night.
Hope this post has been helpful to everyone as far as explaining my approach. Since posting, I turned a profit of 22,500 on a trading account that averages about 16k of buying power. TBH, this is my biggest success since starting trading, and I am glad you all shared it with me, its made updates much easier and really the thing has turned into a trading journal for me while I navigate. Thanks to all, and best! Will update in the morning, unless things get interesting overnight.