Market Update – March 23
The reflex bounce came this morning. Trump posted that the U.S. and Iran had “very good and productive” talks and that military strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure are postponed for five days. SPY and QQQ both ripped 2%+, WTI Crude cratered over 9%.
Catch: Iran’s news agency immediately denied any direct or indirect contact with the U.S. Two completely contradictory stories. The market rallied on Trump’s version anyway.
This is exactly the distinction reflex bounce vs. real recovery. A five-day pause with both sides contradicting each other is not a resolution. Think of it as a pressure valve release, nothing more.
Two paths from here:
∙Talks are real → Strait reopens, oil normalizes, rate-cut path clears, market has a genuine fundamental reason to re-rate higher
∙Pause expires with no deal, strikes resume → last week’s lows get retested fast
What today actually confirms: The market was deeply oversold and hyper-sensitive to any geopolitical relief. The violence of this morning’s move in both equities and oil tells you the selloff has been driven by macro overlay, not fundamental deterioration. The moment that overhang showed even a crack, buyers flooded back in immediately which is consistent with this being a short-cycle risk-on disruption, not a structural bull market break.
Stay patient. The real signal comes when the five days are up.
Final thought.
If you’re drawing 17 indicators waiting for “the algorithm” to bless your trade…
You might be overthinking it.
Price + liquidity + psychology.
That’s the game.
Day trading strategies that actually work
(unlike the crap fake gurus sell you)
People keep asking for strategies, so here’s a list.
Some I've used myself, some come from Market Wizards traders like Al Brooks, Raschke, Hougaard, etc.
Not financial advice.
Your trades, your risk.
Read it. Steal it. Print money.
7.Liquidity traps — where real money hides.
• Stop loss hunting
Retail stops sit at:
– previous day high
– previous day low
Market pushes past → hard reversal.
Trade against retail.
4. Mean reversion — buy panic, sell euphoria.
• Broken parabolic short
If a stock prints 5+ straight green 1-min candles
First red engulfing candle = short.
Gravity always wins.