The market is always right.

Worry about what you can control. Ignore what you can’t.

Don’t get greedy.

The Asian and European markets can be used as a possible guide to get an idea of which direction the US market is likely to go in. For example, if the Nikkei is down 3%, the DAX is down 2.3% then there is a strong possibility the US Futures and stocks will end up down overall. The US futures will have been trading down in their overnight session with Asia/Europe aswell, so there could be an immediate rally at the 9am open before moving down further.

Watch out for stocks that have a significant gap at the open, either up or down. Stocks that have gapped are likely to have good volume and swings in price, presenting good trading opportunities. A gap is defined by the opening of the bar being greater or less than the close of the previous bar. If a stock closed at $85 yesterday and opened at $88 today, then it has gapped up by $3.