S&P 500 (ES)
Prior Session was Cycle Day 2: The FED Saves Christmas – PTG Edition 🎄📈
JPOW just slid down the macroeconomic chimney with a perfectly gift-wrapped 25 bps rate cut, and the market tore into that thing like a kid hopped up on hot cocoa.
But the real Christmas miracle?
The Presser.
Whatever Santa Powell said hit just right — soothing, dovish, and apparently sprinkled with enough liquidity fairy dust to rocket price clean through 6900, tagging the 3-Day Cycle Targets like it was checking items off a holiday shopping list.
Mission accomplished.
Cycle complete.
Bulls singing carols.
Thank you, Jerome. The PTG Army appreciates your service. 🎁🔥
Range was 77 handles on 1.152M contracts traded.
For greater detail of how this day unfolded, click on the Trading Room RECAP 12.10.25 link.
…Transition from Cycle Day 2 to Cycle Day 3
Transition into Cycle Day 3: “Mission Accomplished… or Is It?”
Primary 3-Day Cycle Target 6891 has been cleanly tagged—courtesy of JPOW’s holiday-season gift basket: a tidy 25 bps cut and a presser smoother than eggnog. With that, the Fed elves have clocked out for their Christmas party, leaving the market alone to face the cold, unforgiving world… no more pixie-dust magic to float price higher.
Now we find out what’s real.
Post-Fed GLOBEX trade (as of 8 PM) is quietly leaking back into the 5-day balance zone—not exactly the kind of fearless victory lap the bulls wanted. When price immediately retraces the celebration pump? That’s the market whispering, “Hey buddy… was that all you’ve got?”
Cycle Day 3 is normally a follow-through session, but since the primary target is already fulfilled, the script loosens. Today becomes a true “wild-card” day—where back-and-fill, corrective shakes, and opportunistic traps become the name of the game.
Bulls now must prove that this wasn’t just a “sell the rate-cut” drive-by jam session to lure in latecomer longs. The RTH session will be the real proving ground:
Are we building acceptance above 6900?
Or was that spike nothing more than holiday confetti?
Stay sharp. When the elves leave, real traders take over.
Of course, nothing changes for PTG…Simply follow your plan. Take only Triple A setups and manage the $risk. ALWAYS HAVE HARD STOP-LOSSES in-place on the exchange.
PTG’s Primary Directive (PD) is to ALWAYS STAY IN ALIGNMENT with the DOMINANT FORCE.
As such, scenarios to consider for today’s trading.
Bull Scenario: Price sustains a bid above 6875+-, initially targets 6890 – 6900 zone.
Bear Scenario: Price sustains an offer below 6875+-, initially targets 6860 – 6855 zone.
PVA High Edge = 6877 PVA Low Edge = 6834 Prior POC = 6850
ESZ
Nasdaq (NQ)
Prior Session was Cycle Day 2: This Cycle Day delivered exactly what the DTS Briefing telegraphed — a clean sweep of both the lower and upper target zones. The market even tagged the 25855 upper penetration target with surgical precision, as if the algos were following the PTG playbook line-by-line. (We won’t tell anyone.)
Volatility was generous, liquidity was present, and traders were rewarded with a 342-handle range on 450k contracts traded — a healthy session that gave both sides the chance to dance before the bell rang.
A well-played session indeed.
…Transition from Cycle Day 2 to Cycle Day 3
Transition into Cycle Day 3: Wild-Card Mode Activated
The initial 3-Day Cycle target at 25855 has already been cleanly tagged — the market’s way of saying, “Alright, objective complete… now what?”
Bulls need a legitimate follow-through session to confirm that yesterday’s upside burst wasn’t just a sugar high from the liquidity gods.
But apparently the GLOBEX second-string squad didn’t get the memo, because overnight price action is retreating deep into the 5-day consolidation chamber.
Definitely not the script the bulls had planned.
So now the burden falls squarely on the first-string players at RTH open.
They’ll need to recapture the lost higher ground, stabilize above key value edges, and put on a show worthy of Cycle Day 3…
…or risk sliding into the abyss of failed continuation, where bullish momentum goes to die and bears start licking their chops for a deeper pullback.
Wild-Card Mode is activated.
Expect volatility.
Expect misdirection.
Expect traps.
But above all — expect opportunity.
Of course, nothing changes for PTG…Simply follow your plan. Take only Triple A setups and manage the $risk. ALWAYS HAVE HARD STOP-LOSSES in-place on the exchange.
PTG’s Primary Directive (PD) is to ALWAYS STAY IN ALIGNMENT with the DOMINANT FORCE.
As such, scenarios to consider for today’s trading.
Bull Scenario: Price sustains a bid above 25665+-, initially targets 25735– 25800 zone.
Bear Scenario: Price sustains an offer below 25665+-, initially targets 25560 – 25525 zone.
PVA High Edge = 25719 PVA Low Edge = 25558 Prior POC = 25630
NQZ
Economic Calendar
Trade Strategy: Our tactical trade strategy will simply remain unaltered…We’ll be flexible to trade both long and short side from Decision Pivot Levels. Continue to focus on Bull/Bear Stackers and Premium/Discounts. As always, remaining in alignment with dominant intra-day force increases probabilities of producing winning trades.
Stay Focused…Non-Biased…Disciplined ALWAYS USE STOPS!
Good Trading…David
“Knowing is not enough, We must APPLY. Willing is not enough, We must DO.” –BR
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