I previously took heavy short positons in the NQ (e-mini NASDAQ futures) back in October of 18. That trade from 2018 is here:
More details are in that article, but in a nutshell the behavior of US equity markets is this: for whatever reason, when the stock market is making major highs and/or lows, the market faces a very violent corrective move around the time of the Venus Retrograde cycle. The next Venus retrograde cycle starts on May 12th and ends on June 25th.