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Angle of Descent is the inverse of Angle of Ascent. However, the downtrend runs faster and steeper than the uptrend. WHY? Because the uptrend builds on uncertainty and doubt from retail groups, while Dark Pools and professional traders buy quietly with the that the stock is at bargain prices and will resume and uptrend. Their buying creates the bottoms and nudges price to the upside. Their activity provides near term price direction for YOU to trade shortly after the Dark Pools have accumulated and when pro traders nudge price upward anticipating and setting up for HFT gap ups and smaller funds VWAPS chasing the HFT gaps. Angle of Descent will always be faster, steeper and end abruptly as prices for shares fall well below the fundamental levels. Studying the indicators that professionals use that indicate extreme selling helps you avoid getting into a sell short that whipsaws causing huge losses. When the Dark Pools start to trigger and buy, they are often buying stocks that retail day traders are trying to sell short. Retail traders often lack an understanding of who controls price. When a stock falls sufficiently below its fundamental values, Dark Pools will start buying in a slow steady TWAP Time Weighted at Average Price, creating a Buy Zone that can be seen on the stock chart if you know what to look for. That is your warning signal not to try and sell short.

XAUUSD is a Futures Spot contract. it trades similarly to a stock or ETF or any stock market derivative. When the stock market is stressed as it is right now, then this futures spot offers potential swing to platform position trading opportunities.Trade Wars are creating a very stress stock, bond, ETF, and commodities markets situation at this time. Gold is still considered one of the "Safe Haven" investments when the Stock, Bond or other financial markets are stressed and many retail investors are worried and are selling their investments or moving their 401k funds from one type of pension fund to another type that is a safe haven in their opinion.Using a Spot requires Spatial Pattern Recognition Skills, an understanding of why and how professional traders include Proprietary Desk Traders, Floor Traders for the Buy Side or Sell Side, and Independent professional traders who trade in their home office. These professional side market participants use special order types that strike the penny spread and trade on the ATS venues which means you need to be able to read a stock chart as easily as you read a book or article on the internet as the Level 2 does not show their activity intraday. WHY?1. Because the speed differential is massive. The Professional Side is trading on a millisecond scale. Retail transaction are required to be filled within 1 minute or less.2, The lot sizes professionals sue nowadays are not 50,000 or 100,000. That is long gone. In order to make profits on the penny spread the average large not is 1 million to 50 million shares so you never see these orders as they transact on the ATS private venues.3. Stop losses must be placed a value support levels. Never use percentages unless you are donating your capital to someone on the professional side. Your Broker is required to light all their orders before sending to their PFOF Payment for Order Flow Market Maker who pays your broker to send your orders to the MM.Trade WiselyMartha Stokes CMT