As I tracked the e-mini futures market and observing the four core market in the industry, I have been noticing lately that the Nasdaq market is a little bit smooth on its movement as compared with the S&P, the Dow and the Russell.
Showing in here is the chart 5-minute chart from the QQQQ which is almost identical with the e-mini nasdaq (NQ).
As can be seen from its downside movement last Friday, it drops smoothly.
You can easily shorted it from the e-mini as it is.
The Russell (TF) in the e-mini futures market is a little bit volatile together with the S&P (ES) which is where the pros are fully concentrated.
While the e-mini Dow (YM) is also good to trade especially for the neophytes, but its quite volatile too.
I prefer to trade the NQ as compared with the mentioned above.