Day started with 6 bars stacked side by side. We did have an overnight gap down, so when the bears managed to print a decent breakout bar, I entered short. A bit risky since I was selling right into the EMA, so I was only trading the Tradeify evals.

None of the accounts got filled—seems to be some Tradovate issue going on. I closed my SIM leader account since none of the prop accounts got filled. It would have worked for my initial target of the range measured move and the overnight gap, but moving on. Have to only trade the Apex accounts going forward today.

It took its time, but it did close the overnight gap and also closed the measured move of the first bear leg down.

After this the market did make another leg down, forming a wedge bottom. Later it also formed a double bottom. I was looking to see if we could get a push above the EMA and a possible HL MTR, but bulls just could not show the strength—probably since we were very close to the FOMC statement.

When the release came out the movement was very disappointing—hardly any movement and the market was printing consecutive trading range bars.

The up and down bars continued during the FOMC press conference too, but near the end of the questions we got a bull breakout bar of the range, and I took a chance that we would finally get the bull reversal in this large trading range day.

Bulls once again failed to show up and I took it off at BE.