Monday afternoon is where the weekend's brilliant ideas meet the reality of a live tape. By 3:00 PM, the gap-chasers who spent all morning chasing the 9:30 AM shiny objects are staring at their screens, praying for a mutual-fund-buying salvation that isn't coming.
They didn't build a watchlist on Sunday. Instead, they ran a scan at market open and market-ordered the highest green percentage. Now they are trapped in the late-day drift, paying the premium for liquidity they didn't wait to understand.
Shut the terminal down before the closing bell whipsaws what's left of your capital.