Hey traders,
The Monday open hits. Everything’s flying. You’ve got three charts flashing green, two chatrooms buzzing, and some random trader on Twitter screaming, “huge breakout.”
It’s only 9:34 and you’re already down 300 bucks.
I know you didn’t plan to take that trade. It just looked good for a second. The price was moving, you thought maybe it had more in it, and you clicked the button before thinking it through.
Now you’re stuck. Not just in the trade, you’re stuck in the feeling.
The one where you start chasing. One more trade, one more chance to make it back.
The pace, the pressure, the flood of opportunity… it tricks you into thinking you have to act fast or miss out completely.
But the best traders don’t trade fast. They wait.
They let the chaos wear itself out. Let the greedy buyers jump in early. Let the fake breakouts burn through the hype.
Then, when the panic hits, when support gets smoked, when volume surges and the crowd starts selling into fear, that’s when they move.
You can do that too. You just have to stop giving your attention to every shiny object.
Let them rush in. Let them play hero. Let them get eaten alive.
While you sit on the throne, and wait for the panic to come to you.
I’ll show you how I spot the best Monday panics and time the bounce before the crowd even knows what hit them.
Most traders show up to Monday like it’s a sprint. Everything’s flying premarket, and they feel like they have to trade something, or they’ll fall behind.
So they chase.
They react to heat maps, chat alerts, and random breakouts. Anything that moves gets a click. Most of the time, they’re too early or too late. No edge. Just noise.
I still remember watching ten different tickers and somehow still missing every clean entry.
Now Mondays feel quiet. On purpose.
I’ve already done the work Sunday night. My watchlist’s done. I’ve narrowed it down to a handful of tickers, multi-day runners with heavy volume and emotional buyers.
The kind that usually end the same way: a fast, ugly flush when the hype runs out.
I don’t touch them on the way up. I wait for the panic.
When the price finally snaps, that’s where the trade lives.
- You’ll see the signs.
- Support levels crack.
- Buyers disappear.
- Volume surges as everyone rushes to the exits.
That’s the moment I focus on. Not the breakout. Not the pump. The fear.
Because that’s what creates a bounce opportunity, and I only trade it when the setup’s clear.
- No bounce trigger? I skip it.
- Too illiquid? Skip it.
- Weak crack? Not worth it.
This isn’t about being active. It’s about staying sharp.
Letting the market do what it’s gonna do, while you wait for it to give you an actual reason to act.
You don’t need a trade every Monday morning.
You need the right one. Most days, that only shows up after the crowd has already torched their accounts chasing noise.
So when I say the best Monday trade is often a panic dip buy, I don’t mean every panic.
I mean the one that traps weak hands, breaks levels with volume, and gives me a window to strike.
It doesn’t show up every week.
But when it does, it’s obvious. If you’re watching the right tickers and not distracted by garbage, you’ll see it too.
Catch you in the next alert,
Jack Kellogg