Battle Plan
Man Your Battle Stations
MES MICROS TRADE PLAN
MON/TUE RTH
🗓️ Posted: Monday March 16, 2026
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A Recap of Today’s Price Action & Setups:
OVERVIEW:
CONTRACT ROLLOVER:
From this point forward… the “M” June contract is the front contract
All NEW levels will reflect the June contract. We should gap up 50.75ish points into the ETH session.
The Strong Level Indicator has be updated today with version 3.16. Refresh/reload it.
If I need to make an adjustment tonight or tomorrow, I will do that.
OVERNIGHT:
After a weak close on Friday, we had a 35-point 3M candle on the Sunday opening!
Battle Plan 4️⃣ offered the first opportunity to perhaps get long but with a 35-Point opening candle, No Thank You! There are easier trades to take.
Then… Battle Plan 3️⃣ activated and offered a couple great entries!
The first… for 10 points. Not too shabby.
The second… was the banger!
Initial “Take Profit” was 20 points… as price ran into the Strong Range. THEN, you hold a lotto paid-for runner for the ride with NO emotion.
With a ‘lotto paid-for’ runner per our 3-Contract System, one could have held a lotto runner for 50-70 points!
🚨 I don’t have a screenshot to share because I have already rolled over my Strong Levels to the new contract before building out this review section.
Just an FYI… No one needs to trade Sunday!
There will be plenty of opportunities this week – a classic FOMC/OPEX Level 10 week is upon us.
RTH:
Trading the Monday and Tuesday before contract rollover is always dicey, and then you throw in the fact that Wednesday is FOMC… Well, be careful out there.
The RTH session offered very little in the way of fresh entries, as we have already run 100 points from the overnight low and are up 50-70 points from Battle Plan 3️⃣.
As we noted on Zoom, ES has an uncanny ability to… Take out the opposite IB. So, in other words, once the initial balance range is established after the first 60 minutes of trading, if ES is near the IB high, it often goes to the IB low and takes out the IB low, and vice versa.
It was a weird session because the Bears control on a higher time frame, yet the bulls controlled the entire overnight session.
We warned that the IB high could be the new lower high and to be careful with any new entries long.
When in doubt, consult the Battle Plan price map for the next optimal trade location to consider entering.
TIP OF THE DAY
Contract rollover week is no joke.
Respect the week and respect the leverage.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. — Epictetus
TRADE OF THE DAY
BATTLE PLAN:
🔥 Battle Plan 3️⃣ for 20-50 pointer depending on your number of contracts upon entry and your management style. I will always use our 3-Contract System in determining the final points to use for the scoreboard.
ZOOM:
🔥 A few of us took profits from overnight longs. Perfect take profits. As we said, the IB high may simply be the new lower high… on a higher time frame, the bear is in control.
Today’s Zoom was profitable because of the discussions! Not all profitability is measured in points. Sometimes it is reprogramming our mind with a new idea, or recognizing some faulty thinking and realigning with new thinking. Iron sharpens iron in our group.
CORE STRATEGY: (For Full Members)
🔥 3M BS Short for 30+ points.
🔥 3M FS Short for 15 points.
🔥 3M BL Ladder Point Long for 20-30 points.
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Accumulated Points this Week
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| 8:15 AM | ADP Payrolls |
| 10:00 AM | Pending Home Sales |
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Educational Purposes Only: Not Financial Advice
I’m not a financial advisor (never played one on TV either). These trade ideas are educational training tools showing where price may react… nothing more. Always wait for your own confirmation before executing. These levels represent one trader’s analysis, not personalized trading advice.
The Battle Plan:
OVERVIEW:
After 22 hours or so, the bulls did pretty well. The RTH session spent most of the day in the upper distribution of the overnight range… and above it. Today’s POC finished right at the overnight high, and we closed at POC.
A classic consolidation RTH session.
Not a bad day.
The Bulls are not out of trouble yet, but they certainly accomplished a lot today.
After a 120-something point run to the north and closing in the upper distribution of that overnight/RTH range… there are no high-probability trades here.
Tonight we will gap up with the contract rollover, and Wednesday is FOMC.
Thus, tomorrow is the first RTH session after the contract rollover and the day before FOMC. Bring your hard hats.
Bears still control.
Careful with longs.
ES PRICE MAP
These trade ideas highlight likely “reaction zones” and are for educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor, nor have I ever played one on TV. Nothing here should be taken as personalized trading advice. Always trade based on your own confirmation — these trade ideas simply one trader’s opinion – they are just “trade ideas”.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
TRADE OF THE DAY
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