Be Greedy on Your Entry

Front-running means entering a point or two before price reaches your exact level. George’s most-taught entry move by a wide margin. The logic is simple. When you truly want to be in a high-probability trade, you stop waiting for the perfect touch that may never come and you get positioned early.

The size of the front-run scales with how badly you want the trade. On a committed long, George will step in early on purpose… “I went long at 52. I was debating doing it at 50, but I’m like, I want to be in this trade. So, I’m going to front run it a little bit” (May 21, 2026). Two points, no drama. He owns it: “I just front ran it by two points. Let’s be honest.”

There’s a ceiling, though. George front-runs only as far as his own comfort allows. Reach past that and you’re just guessing. On May 13, 2026 he passed a trade for exactly that reason… “You had to front run that strong level a little more than I personally felt comfortable, so I didn’t do it”.

Front-running pairs naturally with counter-trend location. When George sits at a strong high-timeframe spot where he knows precisely where he’s wrong, he’ll comfortably front-run a counter entry and follow price a little rather than pin one tick… “I know where I’m at, so I felt comfortable front running that” (Apr 16, 2025). Same principle drives Touch and Go counter-trend entries.

One price is a bet. A spread of prices is a plan. Rather than stacking every contract at a single line, George spreads his entry orders across a range so he gets filled at different spots and his average lands where he wants it.

How aggressively you pepper those orders tracks your desire for the trade. George describes running one order two points in front of the level, one right at the line, and one behind it… “how bad do I want to be in the trade… I might have one way out there, one at the level, and one behind them” (Nov 16, 2022). Spread the ladder to match your conviction.

When you want a fill anywhere inside a zone, place orders at both edges so your average settles in the middle and either fill is acceptable. On September 5, 2025 George set “an order at 20 and an order at 16… that would averaged out to 18, which is fine. Right in the middle of that range”. If it filled at 20, he wanted long. Down at 16, he was happy too.

The same tool handles clustered levels. When three bounce lines sit within a few points of each other, George stops trading each line alone and plays the whole range as one:

Two costs come with spreading. First, a small move may only fill one of your orders… “Two variables, spread out a little bit. It only got me into one. So, I’m long at 20” (June 24, 2025). That’s fine, you’re in. Second, spread orders let you shrink the runner’s stop dramatically. Ladder your fills tight to the break level and the final add-on carries almost nothing:

Three orders in, take profit at your first two targets, and keep one runner back. That’s the full 3-Contract System working off a spread entry.

On break-level trades, George targets the candle bodies… and enters two ticks in front of them. Price respects the body far more than the wick, and it stops there again and again.

He applies it the same way every time… “typically I’ll enter two ticks in front of the body and two points above here” (May 18, 2025). The point is precision. This system narrows a wide, sloppy entry zone down to a specific price:

A related move handles swing highs and lows. Front-run the bounce a tick or more instead of waiting for the exact touch, because you’re anticipating price to turn there… “you want to front run those at least a tick if not a little bit more” (Oct 29, 2022). Precise entries are the backbone of any real Strong Levels approach.

Here’s the workflow George recommends. Frame the trade on the big picture, then zoom in for the trigger. Mark your Strong Levels and high-timeframe levels first. When the entry approaches, drop down to a granular chart and find the actual fill.

Dropping to the one-minute buys you two things at once. A better entry if a Fair Value Gap shows up, and a little more room… “by dropping down to that one minute more granular level it still gives me hard data, but it gives me a little bit more wiggle room” (Nov 15, 2022). You keep hard structure while gaining a tighter stop.

George pushes it lower for the sharpest spots. The 30-second chart and Core Strategy fine-tune the entry… but only at the right nuanced location, never at random:

Now the trade-off at the heart of this whole page. A greedier entry sits deeper in the level, closer to your stop. Get filled there and you’re rarely wrong. But you get filled far less often. George names the balance plainly.

Location tells you how greedy an entry is. The closer you sit to the extreme, the greedier the price. Near the single prints… “closer to the single prints, the greedier the entry would be” (Aug 28, 2025). Chasing a long up toward a big round number cuts the other way. “closer to 6,900 your entry is probably the greedier it’ll be” (Feb 4, 2026). And the greediest possible entry of all is the break level itself, which may never print for days or weeks:

Why reach for that greedier price at all? Beyond the tiny stop, it raises the odds the market hands you a way out. George picks locations on purpose for this… “I’ll enter a trade where if I’m wrong, the odds of being presented the gift of break even increases. It’s usually a greedier price, less likely to get filled, but that’s why I chose that location” (June 21, 2026). The greedier entry either works right away or it doesn’t, and that clarity is the reward.

When George is unsure about a mapped trade, greed becomes his filter. Demand the better price and let the trade come to you… or pass. Every time.

That mindset ties straight into Make Price Come to You. When in doubt, George takes the greedier entry, and when a near-miss fill teases him, he goes greedier still on the next one… “You almost get me in and you don’t get me in, you joker. I’m going to be greedier on my next entry” (May 21, 2026).

Here’s the honest other side. Reach too far for price and you miss the trade entirely. George publishes these misses on purpose, because they teach the lesson better than any winner. The most painful one cost him a 100-point day over two ticks:

Two ticks. A hundred points. That’s the math of overreaching. It repeats. On December 6, 2024 he moved a good order to a greedier price and it never filled… “I had an order at 01 and I said I’m going to be a little greedier and I moved it to 04 and it didn’t get there, and that turned out to be the trade of the day”. Same story cost him an easy ten-pointer against a strong level on March 20, 2025.

Sometimes the whole plan was right and greed was the only flaw. George owns it out loud… “I was a little too greedy in my entry and it didn’t get me in, my most disappointing miss of the week. I should have been a little more aggressive” (July 19, 2025). Very happy with the outline of the trade. Just didn’t quite get in.

And the cruelest version… greed can also put you in a loser the planned entry would have dodged. When price came up in a ladder instead of one clean impulse, George went greedier and took a short one point early, a break the disciplined entry would have avoided (May 14, 2026).

So what’s the counterweight? George is honest that he isn’t always chasing the greediest price. Often he marks the wick rather than the deepest tick, because he wants the most responsive price… “I’m not interested in the most greedy price, I’m interested in the most responsive price” (Nov 13, 2022). Getting in beats getting a bargain you never fill.

There’s a clean recovery when a greedy entry misses. Slide the order down to your stop-loss level and let price come back for it. George does exactly that… “I tried the first apex. It missed me. So I moved my entry to my stop loss. It got me in. And now here’s the bounce” (May 22, 2026). You keep the tiny-stop advantage without abandoning the trade. When the outline is right, mentally log the misses and learn from them the way George teaches in Mental Trading.