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Daily bias

A one-sentence view of which way an instrument leans for the session, together with the condition that voids it — decided before the open.

A bias without an invalidation condition cannot be graded, which means it cannot be learned from. "Leaning long above 42,000" is a bias; "bullish" is an opinion.

Forming it before the session is what makes it checkable. Once price is moving, every chart looks like it was obviously going that way.

Also called: bias.

Taught in

Setting the Daily BiasThe Top-Down Method

Decide which way the Dow leans before the session opens — and why deciding beforehand is the whole point.

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