🟩 Cycle Day 3 – “Stacker Patience, Summer Slowness”
Daily Wisdom:
“FOMO isn’t about missing moves. It’s about not trusting your path.”
A timely mantra from @dcretofficial as traders stared down a grinding CD3 with discipline and delayed gratification.“Bull Stackers & the Summer Volume Squeeze”
Think: trader with binoculars watching slow-moving bulls trying to climb a hill under a blazing sun ☀️🐂📉
🧭 Key Levels and Trade Structure
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📍 Line in the Sand: 6275 (reclaimed early)
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📈 Bullish Bias: If sustained above 6275 → Target zone: 6290–6295 ✅ (Hit at 9:32 AM)
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🐻 Bear Case: Below 6275 → Target: 6255–6250
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🔄 CD3 in play: Price needed to clear CD1 Low @ 6287.50 to fulfill a 90.84% positive cycle stat.
✅ Target zone tagged and volume validated — but movement was tight, choppy, and decidedly summerish.
💬 Trader Banter & Educational Nuggets
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🔎 “Bull stackers” ≠ exact entry points. They’re alignment structures—entries are dip-buys post-signal.
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🧠 Theoretical average (Theo Avg) discussed for risk-based profit scaling.
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🎯 PeterN reminded us: CD3 can still fail — 90.84% ain’t 100%.
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🔧 Opening Range (OPR) tactics reviewed across ES, NQ, and CL trades with active management and trailing stops.
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🧊 David: “Markets need a volume transfusion” (choppy + summer = classic patience test)
🔥 Midday Themes
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📉 Crude Oil OPR short → all targets filled
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🇷🇺 Tariff Heat: Trump threatens 100% secondary tariffs on Russia if no deal in 50 days → markets yawned.
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📸 Image drops (Lunch break, post-trade recaps) added color commentary to midday digestion.
🔚 Closing Notes
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💰 MOC Buy Imbalance: $415m = “mice nutz“
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📊 CPI tomorrow could wake this slothful tape. David’s hoping for “spunkier rotations“
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🧃 For now, the volume is flatter than soda left in the sun.
📘 Educational Takeaway:
Stacker signals give structure, but patience is the real edge. Wait for the dip, don’t chase the spike. Let the market come to you.