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MES MICROS TRADE PLAN #279
MON/TUE RTH

🗓️ Posted: Monday April 6, 2026

Today’s Review

OVERVIEW

2 Longs & 1 Short

Three Battle Plans paid!

Two Longs.

One Short.

Once again, we were looking for the right trades and the right trade location… The entire purpose of the Battle Plan fulfilled.

Last night, the Battle Plan 2️⃣ & Battle Plan 3️⃣ provided a couple of opportunities to be long. I captured 30-points.

Then during the RTH session… right after we ended the YouTube stream… we got a beautiful short off the apex of Battle Plan 1️⃣.

In fact, I took the Battle Plan 1️⃣ short twice. Capturing ten points each time.

ES Emini Daily Trade Plan All Battle Plan price maps hit their target.

I performed a 🎩 “Hat Trick” today… three independent trades that captured 10 points or more each. A total of 50 points today.

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🌙 OVERNIGHT

🔥 Battle Plan 2️⃣ and Battle Plan 3️⃣ offered opportunities. 

Had one kept a single runner back 30 to 50 to 60 points, is not unreasonable. 

Here is a screenshot from last night. 

ES Emini Battle Plan Indicator Key Levels

Price ultimately reached Battle Plan 2️⃣ target for a nearly 70 point run!


☀️ RTH

The only trade to present itself was the apex of Battle Plan 1️⃣ . 

Battle Plan 1️⃣ had a beautiful reversal down, reaching the target and bouncing. 

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1034354 creative idea light bulb lightbulb icon - Micros Trader | LIve Futures Trading Room Live Trading Room for MES Micros FuturesTIP OF THE DAY

For today’s “Tip of the Day”, I’m gonna quote one of my members.

Steve wrote, “Two emotions will cost you more money than any bad trade will: Fear & Greed Master both and you’ve solved 80% of your trading problems.”


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We suffer more in imagination than in reality. — Seneca


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BATTLE PLAN

 

🔥 Battle Plan 3️⃣ reached target and beyond!

➡️Depending on your entry and ability to hold a single runner, you could have captured 30 to 80 points. 

🔥 Battle Plan 2️⃣ reached target

150 points total if you could have gotten entry on all three and took profit at the completed mapping. 

I am going to award 50% of those points for the Scoreboard below. When in doubt, I like to use 50% of the move as a baseline. 

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🔥Battle Plan 1️⃣ for a 10-30 pointer depending on management. 

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Do your EOD chart!

A couple of break level longs that paid handsomely, but you had big wicks and stop losses that might have been a little too far. There was a front side long against the Strong Level and a front side short that paid too. 

I would have only taken the front side long against the Strong Level that ran 20 points or so. 

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Accumulated Points LAST Week

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Durable Goods Orders measures new manufacturing orders for hard goods — a leading indicator of factory activity. Forecast: -0.5 vs prior 0.

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Inflation Expectations
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Consumer Inflation Expectations — Forecast: — | Previous: 3. Monitor for deviations from consensus, which can drive volatility in futures markets.

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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

4% day

The IB High and IB Low stayed intact the entire day. 

This only happens on 4% of the trading days. 

A rare day indeed. 

BIG MOVE INBOUND. 

Thus, I will be sitting back looking for a deeper trade than one near by – you do you! 

PING PONG & Pressure Cookers

The chart looks like it was playing ping pong with our Strong Levels today. 

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Another consolidation day in the upper distribution of that monster short covering rally last Tuesday – Thursday.

The pressure cooker is building pressure. 

Price has been here for… basically… six sessions… counting Asia and London as sessions each… of sideways pressure building consolidation. 

We will explode from this tight range. 

Humpty Dumpty… which way does it fall? 

In this environment, if you can hold a runner, you want to hold a runner, because if it breaks your direction… a glorious payday.

Trump & Iran

This is the WILD CARD!

Be careful out there. 

A 200+ point candle can happen at ANY moment – what a time to be trading.

⚠️ The risk of a violent — slap-yo-mama-in-the-face — liquidation break is high. If that happens, no knife catches. If you decide to catch a knife while we’re vomiting down, please fill out a support ticket. I’ll grab a group of guys, we’ll come pick you up in a van, and take you down by the river for a calm discussion. This only applies to men — because women would never ever do that.

Trend line close-up. 

I have shared the zoomed-out version of this for days and days. 

Have we finally broken this trend line? 

Well…. we certainly can’t seem to get any extension above it, but we did push above it and re-test it three times. 

One could certainly use this trend line as a Bull Bear Strong Level line. 

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Battle Plan Notes:

Step 1Possible short idea. If long from below, this could be a great place to Take Profit on some contracts. If we are steamrolling to the north, no calling tops! I would demand laddering for entry into this trade. Safest entry outlined.
Step 2Trap The Trader long off of the RTH low extending into the trend line or the next Strong Level, and laddering back up with a vengeance. One could look to enter upon the reclaim and retest of today’s RTH low, or the safer entry is outlined.
Step 3Price once again challenges the Bull Bear Strong Level line, and the bulls win. This is a tricky area because if we get a good bounce first, Battle Plan 4️⃣ short could be the trade. 
Step 4Possible short here. NOTE the bounce FIRST then losing the Bull Bear line with a vengeance.

Remember, bounce first and then slam under the Bull Bear Strong Level line. Hold that runner if possible. 

If short from Battle Plan 1️⃣ , look to add to your trade aggressively here. Not trading advice. 

Step 5Way-down-yonder long! 

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    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”.

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