Trade Strategy 12.9.25

Posted on by December 9, 2025

S&P 500 (ES)

Prior Session was Cycle Day 3: Morning Session: The Bull Slips on a Bar of Soap

Early price action started messy. Rising wedge chatter, setups flashing, and then the first theme of the day emerged:

No conviction from the bulls.

Breaks went unprotected. Reclaims never held.
Manny’s setups were flashing — then ghosting. Setup #3? Narrow miss. Setup #7? Apparently cursed.
Classic Monday chop.

Price repeatedly toyed with the PTG Daily Range Calculator targets and 75% ranges, but nothing stuck. Bosier cycled long entries like a gentleman and a scholar; Manny took a lay-up short to erase the early sting.

The 6870 level?
Once it cracked… toast for the bulls.

For greater detail of how this day unfolded, click on the Trading Room RECAP 12.8.25 link.

…Transition from Cycle Day 3 to Cycle Day 1


Transition into Cycle Day 1: Battle Lines Drawn, Shields Up

The prior session’s sell-down wasn’t exactly a plot twist — DTS Briefing 12.8.25 telegraphed the move with all the subtlety of a neon sign. The Chicago Bears’ lower target at 6835 hit with surgical precision, tagging the level that now becomes the Cycle Day 1 proving ground.

From here, the script is simple:
Hold 6835 → potential stabilization and squeeze.
Lose 6835 → the trapdoor creaks open.

Below that pivotal marker, lower downside magnets sit layered like a stairwell into the abyss:

  • 6814.77 – 6805.79 (first downside liquidity basin)

  • 6782.32 – 6776.19 (deeper washout zone if things get… dramatic)

But credit where it’s due: the late-session bull brigade didn’t clock out early. They muscled price back up to mid-VWAP, the classic “don’t forget about us” reversal feint in the final minutes — a move that now demands follow-through.

And this is where the real Cycle Day 1 test lives:

Can the bulls convert that late-day ramp into a full-blown squeeze?

Only one way to do it:
Reclaim the key volume node at 6880–6890 — a battleground zone where shorts are forced to decide between:

  • Holding the line, or

  • Hitting eject and fueling a face-melter to the upside.

Meanwhile, the bears are licking their paws, eyeing that 6835 support for signs of fracture. Lose it, and the downside levels become live-fire targets.

The Board Is Set. The Players Are Moving.

Cycle Day 1 begins with perfectly defined terrain and perfectly misaligned expectations.
Bulls want continuation. Bears want confirmation. Liquidity wants fresh victims.

May the strongest — or the most stubborn — be victorious.

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 6855+-, initially targets 6875 – 6880 zone. 

Bear Scenario: Price sustains an offer below 6855+-, initially targets 6845 – 6840 zone.

PVA High Edge = 6858    PVA Low Edge = 6848         Prior POC = 6855

   ESZ

Nasdaq (NQ)

Prior Session was Cycle Day 3: “Beauty in the Battlefields” Edition

The markets were picture-perfect chaotic today—exactly the way seasoned operators like it. While the tourists saw mayhem, the PTG Army saw structure, symmetry, and a sell-down that tagged its target with surgical precision.

The session low at 25565 didn’t just “happen”—it quietly nailed the 75% Last Chance Retracement (LCR) and kissed the lower Money Box Target Zone like it was following a script only the pros were handed.

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Stats:

  • Range: 296 pts

  • Volume: 444k contracts exchanged

  • Theme: Order hiding inside chaos — and opportunity hiding in the order.

 

…Transition from Cycle Day 3 to Cycle Day 1

Transition into Cycle Day 1: The Hustle & Shuffle Prelude

Yesterday’s sell-down?
Barely a speed bump on the scenic bullish-consolidation highway we carved out last week. If anything, it was BIG Money’s preferred discount window — a quick repricing of inventory to cheaper levels. Classic Playbook stuff.

Now we step into Cycle Day 1, and if that downside flush has run its course, buyers should continue crawling out from behind the curtains on any dip back toward prior lows. Quiet accumulation is the current meta.

Bulls’ Mission Parameters

To get the shorts squealing (always a crowd favorite), the bulls must:

  • Lock down 25725–25760 as sturdy upper support

  • Then push onward and reclaim 25791, the key high-volume node guarding the next leg higher

Convert that zone… and the bears start sending “uh-oh” Slack messages internally.

Bears’ Counter-Play

The Chicago Bears Brigade is eyeing their own re-entry point:

  • 25660–25635 is their ambush zone

  • Break it, and they may trigger enough long liquidation to knock a few bulls off balance

The Bigger Picture

All of this is just precursor battlefield positioning ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC — the ritual where both teams try to one-up each other with clever pre-announcement footwork.

This week’s theme:
Hustle. Shuffle. Seize an edge before the other side does.

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 25725+-, initially targets 25750 – 25785 zone. 

Bear Scenario: Price sustains an offer below 25725+-, initially targets 25675 – 25645 zone.

PVA High Edge = 25717     PVA Low Edge = 25592         Prior POC = 25645

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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