well...even with the melt up on the market, the SPY and ES exhaustion short trades still have not triggered, it's tough to trigger those, and shows you how stringent and overbought things have to get before that system triggers. Plenty of times in the past the market had even stronger runs to trigger that

    Do your exhaustion systems wait

    Posted by DigiNomad on 19th of Dec 2023 at 04:34 pm

    Do your exhaustion systems wait for a trigger to trigger?  E.g. I wouldn't think you would get a system trigger without first getting a pullback or two (it's hard to get divergences on a daily chart when a bad day is sideways and the rest of the days are up)

    Exhaustion short no - it

    Posted by matt on 19th of Dec 2023 at 04:35 pm

    Exhaustion short no - it triggers off the highs. Sometimes those exhaustion shorts can be great shorts picking a decent high, HOWEVER most of the time you just get a mean reversion pullback in the uptrend and if you wait for a reversal trigger you give up too much waiting for the reversal confirmation. But again, a lot of things have to line up for that condition to trigger such as like > 30  consecutive days above a short term MA, and RSI > a certain level, and %R in the upper 90's etc

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