Real quickly...I have been watching the speed of price movement. When I enter a position, I want it to move in my direction rather quickly. If it slows down after I've entered and I'm up maybe 10 points, I'll just move my stop to BE, as that is a sign of weakness to me. When price prints fast, the herd is entering, and when price starts to slow down towards a known reference area (be it a previous days hi or lo,
value area pivot or 30min OR hi or lo) then I start to think that as a beginning sign of weakness. If price cruises through the pivot, but closes the candle back inside the pivot, that to me is a rejection of price movement and I'll get out. Or...good place to get in the opposite direction.
I look a lot at ATR of dailies as well as seeing spikes in price on the prior day to gauge a range for price the next day. If price has a really extended range to the upside...I won't look to initiate longs, as it's not hi odds. Looking for price getting stagnant when the YM has had a range of say 90-110 points is a good sign that pressure needs to be released and to me...shorts are hi odds trades that point.