1/20 - Pre-Market read and Game plan for the day. 1) Primary plan: Sell the retest (bearish continuation)
Bias stays short while below POI 1 (25,128) and especially below POI 2/PDL area.
A+ entry idea for today:
• Let price pop into POI 2 (25,096.5) or POI 1 (25,128)
• Wait for rejection (lower high, strong red candle, failure to hold above, wick + close back under)
• Targets (scale):
1. POI 3 (25,044.75)
2. POI 4 (25,021.25)
3. POI 5 FVG MID (25,002.5)
4. POI 6 (24,979.25)
• Invalidation: A clean reclaim + hold above POI 1, and especially if it starts accepting above 25,128 (don’t fight that).
Why this is clean: you’re using your POIs like “stairs” — sell at the top stair, take profit at the next stair down.
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2) Secondary plan: Bounce scalp ONLY if a POI holds
If price sweeps into POI 5 / POI 6 and you get a hard rejection + reclaim (fast snap back), that’s your mean reversion scalp.
• Long scalp trigger: reclaim back above the POI you swept (ex: wick under 25,002.5 then closes back above it)
• Targets: back to POI 4 → POI 3 → POI 2
• Rule: if it accepts below the POI you’re trying to long, don’t average down — next stop becomes POI 6 / POI 8 zones.
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3) Flip plan: Only get bullish above POI 1
If price reclaims POI 1 (25,128) and holds (not just wicks), then you can tell members:
• “Okay, bears failed — now we look for pullback longs into POI 1/POI 2 as support.”
• Upside “checkpoints”: 25,311 (NY PM High) then 25,430 (NY AM High / PDH)
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Why you are NOT changing POIs from yesterday
1. POIs are HTF anchors, not feelings.
They’re built off prior session highs/lows, PDH/PDL, and liquidity/FVG zones. Those levels don’t change just because price is noisy.
2. POIs only change after “acceptance” or “mitigation.”
You adjust levels when price fully breaks + accepts (multiple closes through) or when the zone is clearly mitigated (used up and no longer reacting).
3. Consistency = tradable data for the community.
If you move POIs every morning, your members can’t build pattern recognition. Keeping them fixed lets everyone see the same reactions.
4. Your screenshots literally show POIs working.
Price is reacting around POI 1/2 and then stair-stepping lower — that’s exactly what POIs are for.
