📌 Key Hyperlinks
📰 Recap
In a single day commerce saved ES bottled up inside DTS briefing edges, with the Line within the Sand set at 6415.
Bull State of affairs → A sustained bid above 6415 set sights on 6430–35.
Bear State of affairs → Beneath 6415, sellers eyed 6400–6395 (in a single day low already printed 6395).
📊 Gamma Panorama:
Zero Gamma pegged at 6377.
Focus round SPX 6400 → ES 6420 hinted upside push potential on a maintain.
Decrease band threat sat at ES 6385–80, with bounce makes an attempt anticipated if hit quick.
🧭 Structural Momentum (DTS): Promoting rallies remained the favored play till patrons might reclaim prior day by day excessive pivots. A retest of yesterday’s lows was on the desk for “surety” earlier than any sustainable rally might unfold.
⚡ Financial Knowledge gave the tape some early jolts:
However after the whipsaw open, the market settled into what David referred to as a “holding sample – Suppose Me forward of JPOW @ JHOLE.” Translation: sideways chop till Powell speaks.
🎯 Dealer Notes
Market opened whippy, confirming why many keep away from the primary hour.
Discussions centered on cycle integrity, avoiding impulse trades, and leaning with the 89 CCI (POLR = Path of Least Resistance).
The group riffed on hockey metaphors (“skate to the puck!”), INTJ persona quirks, and the everlasting battle in opposition to the urge to fade the whole lot.
Finish of day vibe: Impartial Vary Day, capped by a modest MOC Purchase Imbalance of $647M.
🥋 Quote of the Day
“Understanding isn’t sufficient, we should APPLY. Prepared isn’t sufficient, we should DO.” – Bruce Lee