You ever go fishing when the tide’s completely dead? No current, no baitfish moving, nothing biting. That’s not bad luck — that’s bad timing.
And honestly? Most traders are doing the exact same thing in the market every single day.
They’re fishing at slack tide.
Here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud…
If volume isn’t elevated enough to support a move, the stock isn’t going anywhere. Doesn’t matter how clean your chart looks. Doesn’t matter if RSI is screaming oversold. Without abnormal volume, you’re just sitting there watching paint dry — and bleeding time decay if you’re in options.
I learned this the hard way, and then I learned it the right way — sitting on a panel with a market statistician from the Nasdaq over a decade ago. This guy didn’t care about moving averages, momentum indicators, any of that. All he studied was volume conditions and how they impacted a stock’s movement.
His finding was dead simple and completely revolutionary.
If trading volume spikes above the 200-day volume average while a stock is pricing higher, the stock will inherently carry higher. If volume stays below that 200-day average? The stock sits idle. Stuck in the mud. Going absolutely nowhere.
That insight became the entire foundation of my MI6 Software.
Here’s how it actually works…
The software analyzes volume on a 15-minute candle basis — comparing each candle’s volume against that 200-day volume average in real time, across hundreds of stocks simultaneously. When volume spikes above that average, you get green bars. When it’s at or below, you get red bars.
Green bars mean the tide is moving. Fish are swimming. Big moves are coming.
Red bars? That’s slack tide. Walk away.
It’s not perfect and results will vary among users, but it’s giving me and some of my top students a big advantage.
Almost every major stock gapped down back on July 16 — Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Netflix, all of them. But Nike was the exception. At 9:30 a.m. ET, the software flagged abnormal volume in NKE.
Green bars lit up. A buy alert fired. Over the next two hours and 15 minutes, Nike ripped higher — and anyone following the option criteria could have collected a nice payday.
Nobody on TV was talking about Nike that morning.
But the software doesn’t care about the news. It only cares about one thing: volume.
Same story with CrowdStrike. When the bars were red, the stock did absolutely nothing — just drifted sideways like a boat with no motor. Then the green bars showed up. Volume spiked above the 200-day average. The stock ripped, and the signal paid out nicely.
I have hundreds of examples and the pattern is the same every single time: abnormal volume precedes the move. Always.
The software has backtested thousands of stocks and ETFs, and we only kept the ones performing with a historical win rate between above 70% as signals that will fire.
JPMorgan came in near 79%. FedEx hit 80%. These aren’t cherry-picked flukes — they’re the result of a system built entirely around one dominant force behind every intraday move.
Volume is the tide. Everything else is just noise.
If you want to see the green bars firing in real time — with buy and sell alerts, option criteria, profit targets, all of it — you can get 30 days of free access to the MI6 software right now.
No hidden fees.
Just sign up and start watching the tide for yourself!
In fact, since you’ve given me your time, here’s a swing trade signal in Moderna (MRNA) from today with hefty 3.12x the average volume:
I mostly stick to the day trade signals myself, but there’s also a swing setting.
If you see a signal you like, you click on it and get all this info including what strike and expiration to pick, your profit targets and more!
Be sure and check out MI6 here!
We develop tools and trading strategies to the best of our ability, but no one can guarantee a future outcome. The trading signals presented today were generated by the MI6 Day Trading Software at the time shown. The MI6 Day Trading Software is a tool for traders and is not a trading service. Users make their own trading decisions, and individual results will vary. No representation is made that any user will achieve results similar to those shown.
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