WLD This morning’s move is a bit interesting—on the 15-minute timeframe it directly dropped by 0.9%, with volume expanding to 1.49x.

After looking around, OI is contracting, and the contract notional has also decreased by more than 7 million U. This doesn’t look like the way new shorts enter to smash the market; it’s more like longs cutting losses and deleveraging. The aggressive trade imbalance has widened to -54%, and in the deep-water area you can clearly see people exiting with losses. Even the lows of the last 20 five-minute K-bars weren’t held.

Don’t rush to pick bottoms. After a breakdown following a low-volume, slow selloff, it often needs to grind a bit more. If you have positions, set your stop-loss levels. It’s better to miss the trade than to hold on—at times like this, staying alive matters most.