PTG Trading Room RECAP 4.2.26

🧭 Morning Context

  • Trader Wisdom Focus: Discipline and process over outcomes
  • Early tone centered around structure, pivots, and patience
  • Traders monitoring A10 trigger and pivot pullback behavior

🔑 Key Morning Developments

  • A10 Triggered early in the session
  • Pivot Pullback Held → Long Lean Established
  • Strong momentum continuation after early support held
  • Traders noted:
    • “Strength”
    • “Support”
    • “Discount via time”

This confirmed buyers defending control early in the session.


🚀 Mid-Morning Expansion

  • DLMB trades triggered
  • Multiple traders pyramiding long
  • Momentum continued higher

Then the key moment:

💥 “BOOOM! Overnight breakdown is now 100% REPAIRED”

This marked:

  • Full overnight repair
  • Bullish objective completed
  • Market transitioned into balanced condition

🛢️ Additional Trade Highlights

  • Open Range Crude Oil Short
    • 🎯 All targets fulfilled
  • Oil noted:
    • High
    • Still in backwardation

⚖️ Midday Market Behavior

  • Market transitioned into:
    • Balancing phase
    • Reduced volatility
    • Pre-holiday slowdown

David noted:

“Market does not need too much of anything else today ahead of the long holiday weekend”


🕓 Late-Day Developments

  • Throttle set to idle
  • MOC Buy Imbalance: $3.8 Billion
    • Slight bullish tone into close

🧠 Day’s Market Character

Morning: Trend / Repair
Midday: Balance
Afternoon: Holiday drift / Low energy


🏁 Key Takeaways

✅ Pivot pullback confirmed long bias
✅ Overnight breakdown fully repaired
✅ DLMB momentum trades worked
✅ Crude oil short hit targets
✅ Afternoon balance ahead of long weekend
✅ $3.8B Buy Imbalance into close


🎯 One-Line Summary

Strong morning repair and momentum, followed by balanced holiday trade and quiet close.


Enjoy the long weekend everyone
Happy Easter & Happy Passover 🌸🐣✡️

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