🎯 @ES — Cycle Day 2 Game Plan
Pivot: 6855 ±5
🟢 Bull Case — Buyers in Control
Acceptance above 6855 unlocked:
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6875 ✔️
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6885 ✔️
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6895 ✔️ (FULFILLED EARLY)
Targets hit. Inventory distributed.
And just like that… the rhythm shifts.
⏱ Early MATD Behavior
Once 6895 printed, the character changed.
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Momentum stalled
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Buyers exhausted
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Volatility elevated (VIX expiration at 9:30 ET)
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Gamma levels in play
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Hedge wall looming at 6900 SPX
Cycle Day 2 doesn’t need to trend all day.
It needs to complete its objectives.
And once fulfilled… the market often rotates.
🔄 1:30 PM Key Bear Shift
Right on schedule.
Internals deteriorated.
Premiums rolled.
A4 structure paid.
The afternoon session evolved into what can only be described as:
A controlled demolition.
Back toward prior highs.
Midpoint VWAP magnet into the close.
MOC Buy Imbalance $1B provided late stabilization.
That’s structural behavior — not emotional noise.
🏆 Open Range TRIFECTA
All Open Range plays closed.
Winning day.
Aligned with dominant direction.
That’s not prediction.
That’s preparation meeting structure.
🧠 PTG Principle of the Day
The key is to ALWAYS STAY ALIGNED with the dominant direction.
Not your bias.
Not your opinion.
Not the Fed Minutes headline.
Structure first. Always.
🎓 Probability Thinking in Action
As discussed in PTG University — Module 2:
We are not trading certainty.
We are trading managed uncertainty.
Follow rules → Silence inner critic → Execute cleanly.
That’s professional behavior.