  Market internals beat the herd  If you are dedicated and
disciplined, you can read the market internals to day- and
swing-trade, making consistent profits trading futures and
exchange-traded funds (ETF).  Most of us remember when we first
learned and experimented with technical analysis and chart
patterns. Likely, you were blown away by discovering what you
may have imagined to be the Holy Grail of trading strategies.
However, after the first six months of real trading, your
trading account was the same size and your trades were winning
around 50% of the time.  The culprit usually is that many of the
breakouts you buy into quickly reverse, and you watch as price
action goes against the original position. That’s when the
obvious reveals itself: Reading chart patterns and volume is not
enough to give you a significant trading edge.  We hear
professional traders articulate that to consistently pull money
out of the market, you need to trade against the masses and
avoid herd mentality. This sounds quite simple,