Most people #trading the #StockMarket see this 👇
The volatility looks like a payday and I want to get long, but:
- Where do I want to buy a pullback?
- How do I know if I’m wrong?
- What confirms I’m right?
The answers are in the context. Let’s dig in 🧵
Here’s what VolumeLeaders subs see👀
Notice the cluster of red dashed levels — each line is a point of high institutional activity. When tightly packed, these levels form a liquidity box where institutions are campaigning.
We don’t know yet if they’re long or short — but we know:
- Lower half of the box = discount for longs
- Upper half = riskier entry
- If price develops under the box, my long thesis is wrong → stop out
🚨 Market leadership is collapsing 🚨
The latest Institutional Conviction Score (ICS) readings show a sharp divergence: #EnergyStocks and #TechStocks remain strong in the 80s–90s, while every other sector is breaking down. This is real‑time #MarketBreadth deterioration. Let’s dig in. 👇
ICS is VolumeLeaders’ proprietary measure of institutional positioning. It's tracked on a name-by-name basis and can be rolled-up into aggregate views as we're doing here for sector analysis. When prices are persisting above recent #InstitutionalFlow , the score rises. Rising scores tend to be bullish, falling scores bearish, and extremes often mark #Trading setups for mean reversion.
ICS tracks where big money is leaning in real time. Right now the message is clear: institutions are narrowing exposure to just Energy and Technology, while reducing risk in almost every other corner of the #StockMarket.
Volumeleaders automagically identifies large odd-lot trades that are of identical size within 90 days of each other. The assertion is that the first is an open and the second is a close.
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Such trade pairs don't have to be one open and one close. After all, we can't know *exactly* what institutions are doing. We only know each time a trade occurs. They are atomic. They are discrete.
We can't even know if it's the same institution(s) on both trades.
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But does raise eyebrows when 814,763 shares of a particular stock trade a week apart at opposite ends of a move, one near a low and one near a high.
We had that today. Twice. In two very similar ETFs.
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