S&P 500: Why Smart Money Keeps Buying These Bounces

tumbled Friday morning after the monthly employment report came in unexpectedly strong. As has been the pattern for a while, the “good is bad” crowd hit the panic button because this increases the odds of another Fed rate hike.

As for trading opportunities, no matter how bad the market felt these last few weeks, these waves of selling presented savvy traders with low-risk entry points. While no one can say if the bottom is in yet, we do know the market always overdoes things, which means at some point, this wave of reflexive selling will go too far, and then it will bounce hard.

Maybe I get dumped out again next week, like my previous trades, but buying these bounces early and quickly lifting my stops meant every time I got dumped out, it was a breakeven trade. Being wrong and not losing money isn’t a bad way to trade. But it only comes from having the courage to buy these bounces early and the discipline to move my stops up once the bounce starts working.

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