MNQ was the ticker for me today.  A busy morning led to little time on the monitors so Dadd caught a few trades from the phone.  Sometimes this works with less trades and a clear mind doing other things than getting 'tick hypnotized'.

The 300 point drop in the overnight session + the opening 30 minutes brought about some patience to wait for the buying off the bottom to peter-out.  Keltner channels gave great info and trade triggers especially with the 5x chart.  Negative divergence on the MACD gave a signal of buyer exhaustion.

Entries were great and stops were put on-side (in-the-money) in a timely fashion.  I was short biased and that was the plan after the morning evidence.  The third short entry was solid with the sellers giving some follow-through and it was nearly and measured move from the first push down.

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