CME_MINI:NQ1!   NASDAQ 100 E-mini Futures
I have several people asking me when NQ is gonna turn around. Well, it's a melt up, so I don't know. It's hard to determine when a melt up will end.

I am assuming the market pumps tomorrow because the market always goes up on Fridays during a bull run because of 401k plans. Fridays are pay days. Usually a little follow through on Monday as well.

I don't plan on shorting anything until Tuesday unless the market collapses Monday, lol.
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Back when I got into options trading I lost a bunch of money trying to short QQQ, lost money more often than not. I quit shorting it.

You can short individual components, but they always find something to pump so the index is hard to short. Last year was an anomaly caused by rate hikes. We're only going to see .25% hikes from here on, don't expect big tanks.

In any case, it's going to require good stock selection and timing to make money shorting stuff now... and a lot of luck.
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Market now going full Tropic Thunder.

Both the Fed and ECB indicated more rate hikes, so this time I can't blame the central banks, lol.
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Full Simple Jack now. I would not put it past the futures traders to do a premarket pump for the pump and dump. 401k funds have to buy on Fridays, funds cannot stay cash.
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People asking me why the market is going ballistic again.... the Fed never reduced their balance sheet, too much money still floating around:

www.federalreserve.g...bst_recenttrends.htm
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