Battle Plan
Man Your Battle Stations
MES MICROS TRADE PLAN #294
MON/TUE RTH
🗓️ Posted: Monday April 27, 2026
OVERVIEW
Discipline
Jake said it perfectly in Zoom today: “Cheers, Zoom is teaching me focus and discipline. Seeing everyone’s DOM closed and or waiting reinforced this trading skill. Thank you everyone.”
“Together We Trade Better” IS true!
Discipline is the path.
There is no other path.
Welcome to the path!
No Sellers
Over and over I remarked, “There are no sellers.”
They are on vacation… The bears are in hibernation
The bulls just keep grinding up, up, and away.
Shorting when bulls are in control is a fruitless exercise… maximum frustration, every time.
TIP OF THE DAY
Shorting when bulls are in control is a fruitless exercise… maximum frustration, every time.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
TRADE OF THE DAY
BATTLE PLAN
No entries today. If you did took Battle Plan 5️⃣ short, it was a break-even trade.
As I wrote on Sunday, “One could still be holding long from Thursday’s Battle Plan long.”
Sometimes holding a runner is the absolute best trading strategy.
I am still long from Thursday’s preferred Battle Plan trade idea… playing “Perfect Chess”. At the end of the RTH session, I move my stop up another 30 points, behind today’s low.
ZOOM
NADA… Absolutely nothing to do.
CORE STRATEGY: (For Full Members)
A couple of break level trades in here… but level development was lackluster.
SCOREBOARD
Accumulated Points LAST Week
* If Long from Thursday Battle Plan 2️⃣, you are up 120 points!
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
Broken record time …. 100% absolutely NOTHING TO DO HERE.
Tread carefully.
FOMC + BIG earnings.
No Fresh levels
Another higher high and a higher low.
The BULLS march up steadily.
Will we fall back into the range????
Will the slow march north continue?
All I know is that, as far as new entries are concerned, it is very, very, very difficult to predict here.
Difficult, difficult, difficult trade location, and I am all about taking easy trades in great trade locations.
That said…. all I can do is map out trade ideas playing the range established last week.
New Trade Ideas?
In all honesty, we hardly went anywhere.
Nothing changes; the battle plans are exactly the same as yesterday.
I’m not even going to change the picture below because nothing really changed.
ES PRICE MAP
Battle Plan Notes:
SPECULATOR’S SPECIAL

7237 Short. Risky. Place your stop a comfortable distance away from the entry. Be a professional risk manager here! Not financial advice. And remember the name… Speculator’s Special.
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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