NQ Range (01-06-25)
2025 will get going this week or next. The prior Post called U Turn near the Danger Zone with Friday-Monday rally, which may be extended to 1/13 since markets closed on 1/9. Orange TL is danger zone, shaded are U Turn zones and others are just key levels (KL's). 990 hit & Long U Turn to stall out (next dash white or 22,080). Notice 12/18 & 19, we may see that now on way up and if not, reverse it and NAZ will fall in the DZ. 1st white vertical is Friday close and 2nd is January month end. Looking for NAZ to retest 18,655 should it get in and stay in the DZ. We will need to see some drops in the off session Overnight (never happens) and Not see the Friday-Monday Long play. Unless these breakdown look Long (as they are holding up the NAZ). Should these crack we could see some drop moves like 12/18 & 19th and provide the right shoulder to the H/S. BTD, FOMO, GoFed in 2025.
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Since nobody really knows what any index will actually do and (what, when, where), the NAZ may complete the W with the white arrow or the H/S with yellow arrow.
Trading's 4 key W's, the keys to it all:
#1, What, what is next move Long or Short? Direction of execution.
#2, When, when to execute the What? This happens prior to the move.
#3, Where, this is the Target of #'s 1 & 2?
#4, Why, this is the least important and does not matter. This is the job of all the media, long only managers such mutual funds and ETF's.
Welcome to the Noise, designed to confuse you and muddy up #'s 1-3. When the noise sources get in sync, its to late. Do not wait for them as they do not understand #'s 1-3 and are only structured as Long Only Products. They could not even trade if they knew all the answers.
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Nothing new today with 2nd half of Friday-Monday Long Play doing its thing. 770 is 1st target for test. You have view recent IDS30M post for additional set up/structure for today.
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IDS27 is showing Air Pocket Divergence for O/N Pump/Dump. May happen quick or not at all. You never know but is is there and has been reliable. Coordinate with O/R 1st 15-30 minute volume blast.
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Yellow on 30M, need to see 2nd and NAZ will need to stay under white line which will turn Yellow. Good Luck today.
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NAZ at fork in the road.
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Pump/Dump starting at 15m til Open, Got to 640 and 620 is ML of O/N.
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30M with Yell Tilson signal prior to drop. Use your tools.
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Holiday, Party Free float is over. This week may whipsaw some to set up bigger drop test for next week.Nota
Five hours up and gone in 10 minutes. Quick Drop Test.
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Short at 830 no pass, long above.
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820 retest for short to 700
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865-70 should be limit high or stop level on short.Nota
Hook Short or pop here at 820.
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Add to short and move up stop. Edge trade.
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820-860 is stop clean out for drop or to the moon. Should see drop prior to leg higher.
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Looking for 2 yellows or 940 is next.
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Hours up and minutes down, until hours down and out. 880 is KL to watch here.
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880 add short with stop at 980. Will keep and get stopped, may be early, have points from Long to wash out the hit, if so. Walking away.
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10YN is not in a great spot and may fall through. This may be why the lift may be just another drop offset. 10YN drop will lift yields and crush stocks.
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Buyers need sellers and Sellers need buyers, Whipsaw in action. Batter Up as NAZ heads back inside the range. Should see some very quick drops to get this going here. 2 way trading is back in 2025.Nota
865 is Fib .618 level form U Turn at Danger Zone. Canadian PM is resigning, Barr is stepping down as Fed vice chair. The Noise makers may use to shake things up. Go Fed. Mot of todays pop was in the O/N, not real but may work as BTD is in play inside F-M Long Play. Nota
1 Yellow, slow turn in the Dead Zone. O/N may prop it should it drop by EOD.
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NAZ back inside O/R and may retest 21,780. Under 1 yellow, looking for 2nd.
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Upper yellow zone is expected U Turn Drop Zone should NAZ climb back up. Lower white shaded zones are drop targets. Just watch for head fake Logs this week. NAZ at 21,785, just above 780.
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Closing half Short at 21,785Nota
IDS35 View
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2 yellows on 30M
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715 Hit and O/N lift in jeopardy. O/N is The Boss.
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Oh my, 2 way trading is back. Whaaaat, BTD/FOMO's O/N to the rescue.Nota
NAZ needs to stay under 787 or close into the O/N will Prop it back up prior to next drop.
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IDS50 Air Pocket Divergence call from earlier, why I was going and adding Short during the lift. These are reliable signals. The O/N lift and F-M Long move are 2 moves that I would expect to breakdown in 2025. These are starting to show weakness, been running for years. Watch for counter moves over this month.
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IDS30 Minute day view and you can see that the system did deliver the same result.
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Like Magic, NAZ is above 2 yellows and at 785 after market close and in O/N Session. Why does this heavily concentrated index primarily only lift in off session period??? What is up, am I the only one who sees this? Sneaky weasel riggers, actually very impressive and best trade going. Just hard to buy into. Long O/N, Short Reg Session continues. 1/9 markets close then back to F-M Long weasel play #2.
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Box for Monday O/N breakout and range. The move will need to stay out of the box (from long or Short side). The Box is NTZ and trade an the edges in opposite direction 1st, wait for confirm breakout. May see another drop prior to Thursday (closed markets) and F-M Long play.
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Danger Zone TL, running since 10/22. A break will be significant, over 2 years of tricks and games.
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1/7 Update, O/N Magic Riggers did not bust the NAZ outside of lower Box. Since the Reg Session is next and rarely moves in the up direction, you may think Short today. 680-780 is range to watch now, you did see 1 Long Edge Trade last night. Opposite direction at KL, best use of time these days.
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KL's for the day. Upper yellow zone is Short zone and lower white is Long only on test/retest from above near a KL. Just not expecting much until next week since Thursday Closed market and F-M Long directly after. BTD/FOMO, Go Fed and AI in 2025.
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IDS users, use IDS35 (or 50) for next few days as the Push/Pull whip will need to be smoothed out. 27 or below will produce too many false signals. Nota
IDS35/30M Dual View
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Unless the O/N lifts the NAZ, just a totally different (flat) tone. Box Range for sure in Open Drive with selling showing up at some point today. I would be surprised is NAZ gets above ML of box 780-800 range. Short call yesterday was early by 20 points or an hour or so. The Thursday closure does favor a weak decent Long move. Take profit on short should it approach your entry price. You will get another shot.Nota
Bingo
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650 is Strong Short and Long Scalp on hold. No O/N, No Fed No Rally. Now Dead Zone will try to push up and No DZ, lower we go. Rigged Joke Price Action.
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So far decent 2 way PA this year. Getting back to normal which means selling should return.
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NAZ at the Edge of the Abyss.
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494, 200 & 990 are lower targets and U Turns. Needs to stay under 650.
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Just remember that the only hope would be the Dead Zone Clowns. I think the Circus is leaving town. DZ is after 1st hour to the start of the Final hour.
IDS35 View
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Open Range with 250 point range, this may be played up/down if 1 way freight train does not arrive.Nota
10YN, watch this guy, back later.
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Delayed H/S playing maybe.
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440-20 retest for pop.
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Long scalp above 420, closing Shorts. Regardless.Nota
U Turn back up half of drop or Bust out here under 420.
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Great day and 2 way is back. I had to run out to ER, all good. Timing is a B--ch. Anyway, this may be more drama and theatrics for the potential rally for another retest higher when Thursday (closed) and Friday-Monday Long Play. Stayed above Danger Zone level and should create a slight U Turn for the O/N Long Only Rig Team. Up/Down until next break under Danger Zone or retest.
21,800 Short or continuation Short from Monday's fake rally.
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IDS50, Notice the flow of upward price action vs downward PA. NAZ moves up smoothly (weak & slow, but smooth) over 3 days. Falls reluctantly, jagged, jerky, etc. over 1 day. When shorting you short from white jagged retracement peaks on stall out. Falling PA will usually move in very similar distance on drop and retracement back up.
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1/8 Update, NAZ back to 420-440 zone (where I closed shorts). Sideways to upper day today, yellow arrow is range and lines are KL's. Tomorrow the markets are closed so expect all low volume tricks to the upside. This would include a gap higher into Friday. A hit at 240 and hold is Long 1st and break under Super Strong Short. Sellers will need the Buyers (bait). Push/Pull and whipsaw expected today, the Thursday close is only safeguard with selling route. NAZ staying under 350 may turn things very ugly and change the Thursday games. BTD/FOMO Fed Minutes, Dead Zone and AI will have to deliver with some strength today. Orange TL is Danger Zone that has been solid since 10/22.
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Dual View
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IDS users, 27/35/50. Pay attention to the yellow "Lightning Rod". The yellow arrows will show the top/bottom and watch next move inside the LR range. Lower lows and higher highs will show trend and trend changes.
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Time to get surgical with your indicators. I prefer non time based charts, range or tick. These only print when price changes, unlike time based. Time based do produce noise. Nota
Upward trend LR, example.
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Long set up and white arrow is expected PB Pull Back. As long as the price stays above entry, trend is up. Scalp with LR (long or short) as the distances are similar. Who cares about direction or why.
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Notice during drop the LR is no longer lit up. This is a PB or short scalp. Again, similar distance to long move, you get 2 chances on most moves unless we are in fake long 1 way move Up. These only go up with zero 2 way. Notice how NAZ went back to entry. This is the bait (sellers baiting the buyers).
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Watch 380 now or 350-380
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New LR at 300, set up or false signal?
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Lift in hours and selling in minutes, again.
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Good luck today, you can see that each day the index will give hundreds of points dual direction. This is useful because the buying and selling is behind each move. No need to wait for breakouts as the sideways PA will always produce more in total points. Trend has not changed here, you know the BTD's will take the next move at 300.
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The media just needs to say AI a few times and back to ATH or NOT. Who cares, just enjoy your rides.
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Easy stuff as NAZ is back to ML of O/N range and 350-80.
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NAZ still inside range and should hold above DZ, no way they let it break under and stay under. Need more whip back and forth prior to that and then there is Thursday and Friday-Monday redirect attempt.
Next week is more likely.
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Just feels like another U Turn. If head fake, that would be very ugly so maybe be careful with the Long side until after the 1st hour today. Nota
Lower end of range, 240 hold is key and LONG.
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HIT need LR and few rests to confirm Long. Not there yet.
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Pop off 240 at Key Time 1 hour prior to Open. Back to KL 354 and O/N failing to hold a lift. O/R will need to move in up direction or NAZ is toast. Just feels like U Turn is next as BTD/FOMO's have no other play (they out number actual traders, pro's, hedge funds, etc.).
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Notice LR top/bottoms, direction may be shifting
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O/N low is a DZ TL Hit, Wow it just continues to be that easy.
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240 pop was 2 hours prior, not 1. Now 1 HR prior is redirecting. Open will be wild as O/N is directionless. Nota
Current O/N range is very important and is in between the upper Resistance Zone and Lower Support Zone. They only way up is with Tricks connected to tomorrow Closed Session or the Friday-Monday Lift Play. Highly doubt it goes up in today's Reg Session. This will the result in a drop to support zone, that must hold or away we go. The other play is that the Reg Session does not sell off and buys this dip, not typical of Reg Session.
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Hanging at NTZ
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Under NTZ, most likely sideways today. To O/N for rally up into Friday.
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Double Bottom and Dead Zone lift should be next.
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This is the testing and retesting at KL 240 that I was talking about. DZ will need to lift or lower and way lower we go. Just feels like games prior to retracement back up to top O/N range.
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On que, DZ Traders come in. Edge trades in opposite direction are good use of time. Rock on as you add up points in the range.
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Anyway, I will be 100% shocked if the Thursday closed session will lead into a Friday-Monday Rally. That would be illegal and I will quit trading. Looking that way and I would hope not as the tricks are getting OLD (but keep working). NAZ needs to drop and retest lower in order for any major lift higher, at this point. Believe they are afraid it will not stop dropping, if so. Nota
Notice the jerky price action, this is nasty no conviction PA. Last time we saw this near a danger zone, it went up. Not sure that is a guarantee but maybe the opposite warning sign. Feeling like a breakdown. Looks like an EKQ chart, impossible to trade unless playing KL to KL and out. Anything else is gambling.
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Top of O/N or 450, from KL 240. Too easy. Rooster will near.
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Rooster
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Just unreal, too many points to grab today. 7 major direction changes. Just like prior U Turn at the Danger Zone. One of these will breakout. The closure Thursday most likely keeping this mild.
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Just watch the LL/HH on LR Signal. Only way to see it.Nota
Above 300 is Long.
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Stop at 300, trail it.Nota
stop 350
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stop 400Nota
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340 Long with 50 point stop.
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stop at 330Nota
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Long at 325, O/N Rig Team. 90 point stop.
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stop at 300, looks like U Turn into the no volume long zone O/N.Nota
Target is 450, cmon Riggers. BTD/FOMO Forever.
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Out for 50
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Did not want to risk Closed gap lower.Nota
Nothing but KL to KL and sideways to the Close. We shall see if Tricks continue.
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