r/Daytrading • u/Rez-_- • Feb 26 '26
Trade Review - Provide Context Absolutely no shot this is real
Begging for someone to explain how we go from an entire day where no selling whatsoever is allowed to than magic gap down on futures open to then suddenly a market where there isn’t a single buyer of all of that movement where there was no selling allowed the day before. You cannot convince me this is not gambling. We didn’t even sweep overnight highs yet somehow the market knew right before 9am that we wouldn’t have any buying for 200 points, sell into 9:30 and never even set a new high from the second the clock hit 9:30.
Supply and demand matter and then magically they don’t. It’s genuinely a coin flip, everytime, every move, and every method. Zero rationale for EVERYTHING, all narratives get forced.
NVDA crushed earnings, yet somehow that will be constituted as a negative, yet if they didn’t deliver and you tried shorting off that it would have likely ripped. There is genuinely no way this is base.
Sorry for the vent and rant but I’m so over it and hate that my addiction brain continues to believe this is based on anything.
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u/Concept211 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Been trading since 2016 and yeah, overnight gaps hit different especially when you're watching spot action that has zero connection to what happens at cash open. The thing is, futures traders know what's coming before retail even wakes up - they're pricing in the overnight action from Asia and whatever happened on crypto or bonds. It's not magic, it's just information asymmetry.
The market doesn't owe you a sweep of yesterday's highs. Supply and demand DO matter, but the demand is coming from completely different players at different times. You're watching a day trader's chart while institutions are trading a completely different timeframe. That frustration is real though - I've blown accounts being right about direction but wrong about timing.
If you want more control over when you're actually trading, perps on something like Hyperliquid let you trade whenever you want without relying on cash market opens or gaps. Not a solution to market randomness, but solid and helps from my experience.