Private Trader, Retired top performing hedge fund manager, in New Market Wizards, 2024 IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award. Street Smarts & Trading Sardines author.
Crude had first close below 5 SMA, but it also was a 3 bar breakout mode (which trumps retracement trades). But it failed to get range expansion to downside, and is now a solid example of a bracketing market (false breakouts up and down as it consolidates.)