Price Magnets

Start with the distinction that matters most. A Strong Level bounces price. A magnet pulls price in. George draws a magnet on the chart to mark where he believes the market is being dragged, then trades toward it. “Putting my magnet there, that’s where I expect price to go. That’s where I believe price is going to be attracted to go” (Apr 4, 2025).

Some levels only ever function as magnets. Trade against them and you fight the current. George is blunt about it… certain volume levels never act as balance areas where you would fade the move.

The pull works in both directions. A magnet overhead can hold price up all night, which becomes a reason to stay long. “I am long because we got some beautiful magnets above our head. They held price up all night” (Aug 8, 2025). And a magnet above the all-time high makes shorting almost impossible… “very difficult to want a short in front of an all-time high” (Apr 30, 2026). This connects straight to Strong Levels, but a magnet plays a different role than a level you defend.

Not every line on the chart pulls. These do. Learn to spot them before the open and you already know where today’s trade wants to travel. Each one showed up again and again across George’s live ES futures sessions.

The all-time high sits at the top for a reason. “Of course the target is the all-time high. How is that not the biggest magnet on the screen?” (June 24, 2025). Round numbers earn their place too. George treats 6800 as a real reference and warns it produces a reaction even when it fails to reverse… “the bigger numbers like that tend to at least have a pause. Doesn’t mean it turns around. Tends to have a reaction” (Apr 16, 2026).

Stack two magnets together and the pull doubles. George calls it a double magnet… two significant levels sitting at the same price, each amplifying the other. “We have a beautiful double magnet up there at the London high and all-time high” (Jan 13, 2026). What makes it double? “It’s an all-time high and a London high. It makes it a double magnet because the all-time high was done in the overnight session” (Jan 18, 2026). When you see two magnets converge, that is the highest-conviction target on the board.

The point of control is where the most volume traded. It carries the strongest magnetism on the chart, and that is exactly why George rarely enters a trade there. When price already sits inside the POC, the pull is spent. You want to buy in the green area below and let the POC drag you back up to it.

Say it plain. “Rarely is POC a place of interest that you’d want to enter a trade. Good place you might want to exit a trade” (Dec 9, 2024). No trades around POC. Its magnetism makes it a target, and a target is where you take money off the table.

An untested POC earns a special mark. If the RTH session never trades back to a prior day’s point of control, George flags it as a virgin POC for tomorrow. “Monday’s POC becomes now a VPOC. So mark out Monday’s POC as a VPOC because the RTH session did not test it” (Apr 2, 2026). Those untested levels leave unfinished business, and unfinished business pulls price. As George puts it about the string of them he leaves behind… “they act as magnets for price. Good places to exit trades” (May 8, 2026).

One caution. The POC only looks like the middle of value. Sometimes it isn’t. “Visually the POC is the middle. Sometimes that is not true. So drawing out the profile sometimes can be very beneficial” (Mar 17, 2026). Draw the profile and you find the real happy place… the 7162 multi-day POC George expected price to settle into, “if price comes back in, you would expect this to become a happy place” (May 5, 2026). These value levels feed straight into the Battle Plan.

Here is where the magnet earns its keep. It answers the hardest question in trading… where do I take profit? George maps a long from a level with the magnet as the target, then exits when price arrives. “We mapped out right in here as your long with the target up here to the magnet and the single prints, and that’s basically what happened” (Nov 25, 2025).

The best exit is usually the next Strong Level in the path. Odds of blasting through it are low, so bank there. Clear it and you gained a free protection layer.

There is real craft in reading the pull. Ask where price is most likely to snap back against you, and park your take-profit there. “Where’s price going to bounce back into my face most likely? Well, most likely it’s going to bounce back into there if it gets there” (July 23, 2025). When a giant level looms ahead, bank just before it rather than betting it breaks. “Coming into last week’s high, the previous RTH all-time high… take some profit just before that level” (May 26, 2026).

Targets stack in a sequence too. George maps three destinations for a trending session:

1. First destination: the overnight high.
2. Second destination: getting over halfback of the prior day.
3. Third destination: clearing the afternoon high.

Each one becomes a magnet in turn once the one below it falls (Feb 25, 2025). And when two setups compete, George favors the bigger measured move… “this would be a 39, 40 point move and this would be 60. I would prefer the 60 one” (Feb 5, 2026). This is the same discipline as See Money, Take Money: you trade toward a level and you honor it when price gets there.

Two of the strongest magnets form from repetition and from empty space. When session lows stack in a row, they mark a zone the market keeps revisiting. Three RTH lows lined up? That is a target.

Those same stacked lows double as a line of defense. When today’s low, Monday’s low, and Friday’s low sit together, that is the wall the bulls have to hold… “we do have today’s low, Monday’s low, Friday’s low, all here together” and “this would be the line of defense that the bulls need to defend” (July 15, 2025). A magnet below and a battle line, all in the same cluster.

Unfilled gaps work the opposite way. Empty space begs to be filled. A wide-open gap becomes a big magnet… “that is going to be a big magnet, right, 0975” (Feb 26, 2025). And price often runs to the halfway mark first. “We opened up, basically went up to the 50% of the gap fill and failed”, then closed right back at that midline (Mar 29, 2025). Watch the 50% line to see where the market is really trying to go.

Old highs left untested carry the same unfinished-business pull. George keeps a running note of prior-session RTH highs that never got tested during RTH, because they get grabbed later. “It took an old RTH high that had not been tested in the RTH session. That’s one reason I keep track of those” (Apr 15, 2026). Once it gets tested, he deletes it and moves on. The magnet is spent.

The magnet is a powerful tool, and George is honest about its limits. Marking one hands traders the conviction to hold… that is its real gift. Yet it stays a probability for today. Tomorrow may tell a different story.

That honesty is the point. A magnet is where price wants to go on today’s map. “That’s what these magnets are. This is where we’re expecting price to go” (June 4, 2026). It gives you a reason to stay in the trade instead of grabbing the first green tick. That conviction is exactly what lets you hold a runner all the way to target.

George uses these levels to build his plan every session. “Do you think we use those levels to help craft our Battle Plan trades? You bet” (May 5, 2026). Trading MES micro futures lets a small account practice this same skill with real money, mapping the magnet and trading to it long before scaling into full-size ES futures. Learn where price wants to go, and you stop chasing… you let it come to you, a core idea in No Level, No Trade.