Your first trade of the day can have an encouraging or debilitating affect on the rest of your trading day. Identifying this initial trade is often very tricky. What is a trend to get on, and what is a trend about to reverse? Will the gap close, or will the price action fail? Study the chart above (click to enlarge). If your present trade methods didn't give three signals to bet short at the highs and two key signals to cover and go long at the lows, then consider taking the course Pivots, Patterns and Self Recognition. The ValhallaFutures methodologies identified these signals, and you can learn them too.