Stock indices aren’t purely a faders market, though. This is easy to verify: Just short stock index futures every time they make new intraday highs and see how long it takes to get a margin call.

However, there are many intraday moves in the stock indices that run out of gas fairly quickly. The following strategy is designed to identify shorter-term fading opportunities in stock index futures using a specific combination of market-timing techniques and time frames, along with aggressive money management and risk control.