The game plan in the markets over the past several quarters has been to buy the dip whenever the S&P 500 approached its 50-day moving average of prices.
So naturally, I spent the weekend thinking about some long trades that I wanted to put on today -- thinking the same old game plan was likely to continue.
Then I woke up to S&P Futures showing the largest gap down opening we've seen in a while and $SPY indicated to open significantly below its 50-day moving average for the first time in seemingly forever.
In other words, the market was telling me to rethink my bullish ideas.
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