4c

Yesterday's multiple time frame chart.  Trend day down, best entries were to fade the pullbacks to the Open and IB-low.  "Triggered" trades occurred a couple of bars after those failed tests, a 4c-4d-4c continuation setup:

SPY 4c-to-4d continuation setup.

AAPL long 3d criteria.  I thought this was a b/e trade, but I actually lost about $0.25 on this.  When a 3d setup fails often makes for a good short entry.  Reversing this entry from long to short would have worked initially, but could have just as easily resulted in a stop-out considering the whippy move around 3:00.

The inverse names have been setting up for a while now.  This would have been better off adding too rather than jumping in and out of as I did.  First entry was a target of 1/2 position for $1, 2nd half b/e.  Second entry was a stop-out at b/e and the third entry was for the move into the close for $1.

4d

Following the 3/10 macd criteria this setup fits under the 2d-to-2c (or 4d-to-4c) continuation setup.
The slow line is trending down as the fast line is correcting into it (typical of a bear flag price pattern).
Typically I look to enter on the 5-min chart based on the first negative reading (3/10 macd fast line), but in this case that happened on a green hammer bar so I was looking for a pullback higher.  Fib. projections were based on the first seed wave that is highlighted on the 5-min chart.

 

just short

Very bearish day.  With market breadth extreeeeemly week all day.  If one was to miss the opening sequence short and were looking for a pullback to short, what I typically do is to look for the 5-min chart to turn back over negative (the fast line/histogram).  It's often reliable, but most important the price confirmation is there; failed retest of the breakdown point.

Daily, with support levels below; 2b short triggered yesterday.