Trading Room RECAP 6.4.25

Posted on by June 4, 2025

“The Market Whispered… and Then Went Back to Sleep”

Welcome to Cycle Day 2, where conviction takes a coffee break, the range gets cozy, and traders try not to throw monitors out the window. Let’s rewind the day’s price action symphony—led by Maestro PTGDavid and an ensemble of insightful (and occasionally unhinged) market minds.

🔗 Housekeeping Links (Click ’Em or Miss ’Em):

☕ Morning Flow: Traders Log In, Market Logs Off

  • 8:48 AM: “Good Morning,” says David. “Cycle Day 2,” says the calendar. “Expect normalization,” says no one excitedly.

  • 9:03 AM: A math-heavy tweet from Yumi gets shared. A polite warning: “If you hate math, skip it.”

  • 9:10 AM: Emotional honesty arrives: “I mastered the charts, but lost the war inside me!”

  • Somewhere around 9:30 AM: The first sandbox is drawn—5975 to 5995—tight like a drum, and about as exciting.

🎭 Midday Mood: Trader Zen, Batman, and Bracketed Blues

  • 10:54 AM: Textbook Cycle Day 2 rhythm emerges. That is to say—sideways boredom with purpose.

  • 11:01 AM: “Wide Initial Balance (20 handles)” = Bracketed Range Day.

  • 11:13 AM: David’s call to arms: “We need a Blast with Gas!” Sadly, all we got was a whimper.

  • Meanwhile, @CL was getting “face-slappeds” as the Saudis whispered about market share and oil tumbled.

🖼️ Charted Realities

  1. 📷 Morning Framework: Chart 1 – Opening Levels

  2. 🐰 Lunchtime Lure: “Wabbit Hunting” for HOD Stops

  3. 📉 End of Day Truth Bomb: The Range Strikes Back

🎢 Afternoon Delusions of Grandeur

  • 2:01 PM: Bulls want to break out. $NQ tries. $ES? Still stuck in molasses.

  • 2:04 PM: Stop clusters hang like low fruit above the HOD… but the wick keeps sticking.

  • 3:25 PM: “Classic trading range rhythm,” David sighs.

  • 3:36 PM: Quote of the day:

    “Only winners today are the brokers… because this action will make you broker.”

🧼 Clean Up on Aisle Close

  • 3:52 PM: Persian rug pull confirmed.

  • 3:54 PM: MOC Sell Imbalance: $1.1 billion. Not a typo. That’s your liquidity vacuum for the day.

  • 3:55 PM: Someone mutters “hagee,” and the market closes with a side of existential dread.

🎓 Educational Takeaways

  • 🔁 Cycle Day 2 = Mean Reversion. If you played for the breakout, the market played you.

  • 🧭 Initial Balance Width = Clue. 20 handles screamed “range day.” Did you listen?

  • 🧱 No Structure = No Trade. “Don’t push on a string,” David warned. It snapped anyway.

  • 🔥 Volume Profile Watch: P-shape means shorts are done — not bulls stepping in. Know the difference.

  • 🧠 Mental Capital is Real: Sometimes the best position is… the chair you’re sitting in.

Final Word: “Markets don’t owe you clarity. But they will always charge you rent for confusion.”
Stay sharp. Stay liquid. And maybe skip that third coffee on CD2.

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