I was thinking the same thing!

200-300 point pullback?! we dont get 20-30 point pullbacks.

Alright - I'm gonna say it.... 

What a historic buying opportunity this is! When has this market gone down AND STAYED DOWN for any length of time whatsoever?! No reason to EVER short this thing. EVER. Wave goodbye to Wave 5 because it's clearly just the beginning.  Everyone has learned: STONKS GO UP. Period.

(Probably not helpful -I'm disgusted.  )

What a joke. Insatiable demand for stocks. 

Market Down?!?! Not allowed. MUST Buy everything I can. Quickly. WITH LEVERAGE!!

I’m not an Elliot Wave guy by any means and the limited knowledge I have of it comes from Breakpoint. The issue I’ve found with the EW analysis lies in the last sentence of your post: Wave counting can vary between analysts until the pattern fully unfolds. It seems as if you never know the wave finished until AFTER the fact. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been short wave 5 with some time of indicator divergence, only to have the market continue higher and it’s labeling change to some subdivided count. No disrespect to Matt (or Steve) - I have been a loyal member here for maybe 12 years now and find other tools and analyses absolutely invaluable. I’m just very skeptical of Elliot Wave. Seems like it only works in hindsight. 

It's not like CL went down due to lack of demand. It went down because Bessent is literally selling futures to keep it depressed. Buy Treasuries, sell crude = stocks rally. Yeah, genius.

I'm never shorting again. I'm never shorting again. I'm never shorting again.

Fills opening gap.

Why Options? Capital Efficiency. Shaping P/L curves, defined risk, asymmetric potential payoffs,  precision, flexibilty.  Think Checkers vs Chess. And yes, income.

This is not fear - a 1% overnight fade met with IMMEDIATE buying (and put selling). Apart from Liberation Day, every selloff has been so completely muted.  We're down 2% from all time highs and it seems like a screaming buy. again. Everyday it's a buy.  good news/bad news. And (correct me if I'm wrong) but it appears to be  retail-led too! Is this just the new paradigm- buy everything everyday?

is that 5 waves?

For some time now, I've endured Tradestation's infuriatingly slow, prone-to-constantly-crashing , ancient 32-bit trading platform, primarily because the algorithms that I use -both written follow- were in EasyLanguage, even though I executed primarily with IBKR.  For kicks, I got myself a trial of Multicharts (64-bit) platform just to see if it was any better.  Lo and behold, its like night and day. Almost effortlessly, I've converted the first half of my algos (20 or so) to PowerLanguage (MC's version of Easy) with the help of Chat GPT - within the first few hours of using the platform.  The only issue i'm having right now is data - i can use Tradestation's data feed pretty easily, but IBKR's isn't configured that well yet. Going to see if I can get it sorted out with them this afternoon.

Anyway - I'm posting this since I know that some of you (ESPECIALLY YOU MATT/JAMES!!) use Tradestation and have had the same issues that I have.  As traders, we tend to be creatures of habit. No one wants to go out and "learn" a new platform.  I get it, but the step up in performance is immediately noticeable and the conversion process relatively easy.  Anyway, might be worth looking into!

TACO

would love that -thank you!

Has anyone used TitanX from Tradestation? Anyone who uses TS Desktop knows what a beast it can be. Does anyone know if you can run strategies from the new platform?

so much for VIX/VVIX. Its been the same story since April - selloffs dont even last a day. big overnight down moves get gobbled up. the panic remains to the upside. cant stop. wont stop.

This is great point. I actually meant to bring this up to you regarding futures.  When you program the system you're getting the "settlement" price. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily the "last" price. So you'll have a situation where you can trigger an exit but Tradestation will give you an exit thats not where it is currently trading.  I think its especially the case with GC as well where the settlement comes in at the close - around 2:30pm - but it trades until 5:00pm.   This is WHEN your bar ends and the signal is generated, but not WHERE. Where is back at 2:30pm.  (I may wrong on this, but that's my understanding of it anyway).

I think your workaround is the way to go! A coding pain-in-the-neck, but it should work.