That's rich as you're posting quite a lot of predictions yourself - although some of them come way after the fact. If you knew how to predict with any degree of accuracy, you'd see the value. LOL.
Thank you big boys hourly traders. There is a pattern. Just a few minutes ago, the big boys would trade US index futures (and also European index futures ....) decisively. It has been happening for the past few days. something happening in China (or whatever)? China A50 dropped 8% in < 1 minute
i'm always out of touch but I THINK it might have been to do with china announcing retaliatory tarriffs on the US?
I like such a market. it is easy money because the whole world's markets are moving in tandem and it moves rapidly and decisively. So we can collect profit within a few seconds.
post mortem on what happened last 1/2 hour US, European, Asian index futures, copper, crude oil all went down in tandem gold futures went up at the same time. Tandem moving market is fantastic. ie big boys, algo traders ... use multiple charts.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/04/business/china-us-tariffs-retaliation-hnk-intl/index.html 34% reciprocal tariffs... Edit: now if Trump (ahem) delivers on his word, the US will increase tariffs on China by an extra 34%. So currently 54% + 34% extra = 88% which happens to be an auspicious number in Chinese culture (and reads like "baba/papa", so who's your daddy now?)