Alex's daily Market update & Focuslist (paid)

Market update & Focuslist - 08/25

Evening Market Update & Strategic Insights

Aug 26, 2025

∙ Paid

Thought of the day - Zooming out

I’ve been there too, staring at a red day or some ugly action in my portfolio and immediately wanting to flip my whole market view. But one of the biggest improvements in my trading came from learning to zoom out.

Zooming out means stepping away from the daily noise and focusing on the bigger picture. The short-term always looks messy, markets breathe in and out, shake people out, and test your patience. If you let every red bar or scary intraday move reset your whole outlook, you’ll always be chasing, never leading.

When you anchor yourself to the longer-term trend, you give your process stability. It doesn’t mean ignoring risk or signals, it just means respecting the context: the market can have bad days inside a healthy uptrend, and it can have green bounces inside a weak downtrend. The trick is to stop letting that daily noise dictate your conviction.

So next time you feel the urge to switch your bias because of a single day’s pain, pause. Pull up the higher timeframe. Remind yourself where the real trend sits. That simple habit, zooming out before reacting, is what keeps you aligned with momentum instead of tossed around by it.

PrimeTrading is an equity SWING trading community to learn & trade alongside experienced traders. It's like sneaking into a trader's POD, where you can see us execute & discuss...but in ours, you can also interact and ask questions.

I would have killed for such an opportunity when I started trading! 🔥

Education & mentoring from Alex & experienced traders. (10 Experienced Traders team)
See how I execute intraday while I share all my trades with explanations live.
Alex's daily market commentary, Portfolio updates, trade explanations, and daily FocusList.
Share & Discuss potential trade ideas with an amazing, like-minded community.
Talk Sectors, Macro Economy, Cryptocurrencies & much more!
Talk about mental game & psychology to evolve as a trader!
Live trading and Q&A live sessions 2x week.

Trade & learn with us, from Novice to Expert!

Cheers, Alex 🛡️✌️

Join the Discord community!

MARKET ANALYSIS

MCSI slammed back down…back in downtrend.
Breadth gets that double top look here, with another hook-down today.
QQQE back inside the 21dma-structure with an inside day.

Chop/digestion continues, and the market wasn’t able to follow through right away on Friday’s breadth thrust. I continue to see this as normal backfilling action, but if the market can’t firm up tomorrow and lose the 21dma-structure, then we’ll need to look at playing defense again.