Can NQ1! Push Through $25K+ Resistance Zone?🎯 The Great NQ Heist: Layered Entry Strategy for E-Mini NASDAQ-100 Futures
📊 Market Overview
**Asset:** NQ1! (E-Mini NASDAQ-100 Futures)
**Strategy Type:** Swing/Day Trade - Wealth Accumulation Map
**Bias:** 🐂 **BULLISH**
🎭 The "Gentleman Thief" Layering Strategy
💰 Entry Philosophy: Layer Like a Pro
This setup uses a **sophisticated layering approach** - think of it as strategically placing multiple limit orders to capture the best average entry. You're not going all-in at one price; you're building your position like a chess master.
📍 Suggested Layer Entry Zones:
- 🎯 Layer 1: **24,800**
- 🎯 Layer 2: **24,900**
- 🎯 Layer 3: **25,000**
- 🎯 Layer 4: **25,100**
Note: You can scale in at ANY price level using this layering method. Add more layers based on your position size and risk tolerance. The beauty of this strategy is flexibility - enter where the market gives you opportunity! 🎪
🛡️ Risk Management
Stop Loss Zone: **24,700**
⚠️ **Important:** This is MY stop loss level based on technical structure. However, trading is a personal journey - YOU decide your own risk parameters. Protect your capital first, profits second. Your SL should align with YOUR risk tolerance and account size.
🎯 Profit Target
Target Zone: **25,600** 🚀
This level represents a confluence of:
- 💪 Strong resistance zone
- 📈 Overbought conditions
- Potential bull trap area
**Smart Exit Strategy:** As we approach this zone, consider scaling out of positions. Don't get greedy - take profits when the market offers them!
⚠️ **Reminder:** This is MY target projection. You're the captain of your own ship - take profits when YOU feel comfortable. Trail stops, scale out, or hold for moon - your money, your rules! 🌙
🔗 Related Pairs to Watch
Keep your eyes on these correlated instruments
- SEED_ALEXDRAYM_SHORTINTEREST2:NQ =F** - NASDAQ-100 Futures (spot reference)
- NASDAQ:QQQ - Invesco QQQ Trust (ETF equivalent)
- NASDAQ:AAPL , NASDAQ:MSFT , NASDAQ:NVDA , NASDAQ:GOOGL ** - Top NASDAQ-100 components
- NASDAQ:NDX - NASDAQ-100 Index (cash)
- CME_MINI:ES1! - E-Mini S&P 500 Futures (broader market correlation)
📌 Why these matter:** The NASDAQ-100 is tech-heavy, so major tech stocks drive NQ movement. Watch QQQ for retail sentiment and ES for overall risk appetite. When big tech moves, NQ follows! 💻
🎓 Strategy Breakdown
This "layering" or "scaling-in" approach offers several advantages:
- ✅ **Better average entry** - Dollar-cost averaging into position
- ✅ **Reduced timing risk** - Not dependent on perfect entry
- ✅ **Psychological comfort** - Builds confidence as position develops
- ✅ **Flexibility** - Adapt to market conditions in real-time
📢 Final Thoughts
The market rewards patience and discipline. This layered entry strategy is about working WITH the market, not against it. Whether you're a swing trader holding for days or a day trader scalping ticks, the principle remains: **Control your risk, let profits run.** 🏃♂️💨
✨ **If you find value in my analysis, a 👍 and 🚀 boost is much appreciated — it helps me share more setups with the community!**
**⚠️ DISCLAIMER:** This analysis represents a "gentleman thief" style layered trading strategy intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. This is NOT financial advice. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Always trade with risk capital you can afford to lose. Make your own trading decisions based on your personal risk tolerance, account size, and market analysis. 🎭📊
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NQ - LONG SETUP AND STUDY ABOUT FAIL BEARISH CONTINUATIONContext:
CPI was already priced higher, anchoring expectations toward a risk-on sentiment.
Two VWAPs are now in play:
VWAP 1 – Origin of the Swing: drawn from the structural reversal low (failed bearish continuation).
VWAP 2 – Macro Event Anchor: anchored at the CPI release on Oct 24, 2025, serving as an institutional reference point until the next major macro event (Big Tech earnings next week).
Market Structure:
After three consecutive bearish structural failures and three long breakouts with acceptance, the bias had already shifted before the violation of 23,395.
The final breakout and acceptance realigned all timeframes to a long structural bias.
Operational Framework:
Macro Value Area (VAH): acts as resistance-turned-demand zone.
Discount Zone: preferred re-entry area.
Trigger: Reaccumulation or failed new low pattern inside value.
VWAP 1 + VWAP 2 confluence: defines fair value equilibrium and directional conviction.
Revision Note:
When sellers fail to extend a bearish range in index markets, all short setups must be reviewed.
The structural bias in equity indices remains long by default — short efficiency must be proven, not assumed.
NQ & ES Premarket Comment Friday 24-10-2025Good morning everyone.
Today we are operating within a Premium Zone. After witnessing price extend beyond the indices’ all-time highs (ATHs), our focus now shifts exclusively to short opportunities, should they arise.
We’re trading within an extended upper range where only short setups make sense following the market’s open.
It’s TGIF Strategy mode today — the goal is to target lower clusters/liquidity zones and aim for a weekly close below the highs. Our key objectives are the internal liquidity pools, fair value gaps (FVGs), and most importantly, the mean line (equilibrium point).
Stay disciplined and patient. When price aligns with your personal model’s rules and confirms your bias — execute the short. If confirmation doesn’t come, do nothing. Let the market deliver its lessons.
See you later in the final commentary of the week.
PF
NQ Power Range Report with FIB Ext - 10/24/2025 SessionCME_MINI:NQZ2025
- PR High: 25303.00
- PR Low: 25276.00
- NZ Spread: 60.5
Key scheduled economic events:
08:30 | CPI (Core|MoM|YoY)
09:45 | S&P Global Manufacturing PMI
- S&P Global Services PMI
10:00 | New Home Sales
AMP Futures temporarily setting US Equity Indices Margins to 25% for expected volatility spike for U.S. Economic News Releases
Session Open Stats (As of 12:55 AM)
- Session Open ATR: 385.77
- Volume: 20K
- Open Int: 284K
- Trend Grade: Long
- From BA ATH: -0.2% (Rounded)
Key Levels (Rounded - Think of these as ranges)
- Long: 26020
- Mid: 23571
- Short: 21939
Keep in mind this is not speculation or a prediction. Only a report of the Power Range with Fib extensions for target hunting. Do your DD! You determine your risk tolerance. You are fully capable of making your own decisions.
BA: Back Adjusted
BuZ/BeZ: Bull Zone / Bear Zone
NZ: Neutral Zone
NQ Power Range Report with FIB Ext - 10/23/2025 SessionCME_MINI:NQZ2025
- PR High: 25059.50
- PR Low: 25000.25
- NZ Spread: 132.25
Key scheduled economic events:
08:30 | Initial Jobless Claims
10:00 | Existing Home Sales
Session Open Stats (As of 12:15 AM)
- Session Open ATR: 396.82
- Volume: 31K
- Open Int: 281K
- Trend Grade: Long
- From BA ATH: -1.1% (Rounded)
Key Levels (Rounded - Think of these as ranges)
- Long: 26020
- Mid: 23571
- Short: 21939
Keep in mind this is not speculation or a prediction. Only a report of the Power Range with Fib extensions for target hunting. Do your DD! You determine your risk tolerance. You are fully capable of making your own decisions.
BA: Back Adjusted
BuZ/BeZ: Bull Zone / Bear Zone
NZ: Neutral Zone
Forty Thousand Foot ViewCharles Payne recently said his favorite pattern is a Cup & Handle pattern. His guest agreed.
I use a chart like this to get the big picture. I want to emphasize several things.
1.Cup 1 is huge. It said, "Here is a foundation for building upon." You can see how it has fulfilled that bold statement and how strongly it has held fast.
2.Cups 2 & 3 are upside down, cup 3 higher than cup 2. These two cups are saying, "Things are going higher."
3.Cup 4, which is still forming, is saying, "Look here. We are building a new dance stage similar to Cup 1's dance stage and a whole lot of partying is going to happen when it is completed."
4.This is the most important takeaway for you. One Thousand ninety-three points separate the rims of cup 1 and cup 4. With the trading plans I have detailed in prior posts I have traded that 1,093 points many times over and so can you.
From 9/2 - 10/20 using these plans I grew my account by 44.7%. I'm not at all saying look how great I am. I am saying look what you can do.
Finding a trading plan that works is vital to success. It took me years and thousands and thousands of demo trades and live trades trying to replicate the trade ideas of others that I got from many and varied sources. The results were ever so disappointing.
One day I said, "Sidgate, you are a fellow of Common Sense. I challenge you to create a trading plan that works."
I took him up on that challenge and I share those results with you.
What's the catch? There has to be a hook here somewhere...
As corny as it may sound - it is indeed more blessed to give than to receive. I have found that as I have shared these plans and charts with you my trading results have improved. I don't think that would have happened had I not spent so many hours examining every little detail of my charts and trading plans in order to clearly communicate them to you.
I know I've made typos and simple math errors along the way. When I go back and see them, I cringe. Hopefully, you can learn despite those cringeworthy events.
Again, this is a 40,000-foot view. A very important view. For all entries and exits I use a 5-minute chart and 5-minute cups & handles. The 5-minute chart sure can get busy. I am very thankful Trading View gives us the option to hide drawings.
Just a little aside - today's low, the place where it bounced, was almost exactly on one of the handles of a 5-minute cup.
I am still a work in progress...
NQ Red boxes are the last 3 days
then I marked the 4hr trends and levels in orange before the 1hr levels in yellow.
I finished off with 15min blue levels and 1 green 5min level cause it was so clear and backed by 4hr trends.
The last 15min support level looks too good to pass up. I wonder when it will be visited.
ATH RANGE TRADINGTODAYPlanning to trade the local range today, buy low sell high, it can be this easy. With luck it will break the pendant in the direction i am holding for the higher time frame trade.
Hopium is we rotate several more times in this range for distribution with a final big push up to squeeze shorts.
NQ Power Range Report with FIB Ext - 10/22/2025 SessionCME_MINI:NQZ2025
- PR High: 25285.50
- PR Low: 25257.75
- NZ Spread: 62.25
No key scheduled economic events
Quick dip and rotation back towards ATH
Session Open Stats (As of 12:15 AM)
- Session Open ATR: 385.15
- Volume: 24K
- Open Int: 290K
- Trend Grade: Long
- From BA ATH: -0.2% (Rounded)
Key Levels (Rounded - Think of these as ranges)
- Long: 26020
- Mid: 23571
- Short: 21939
Keep in mind this is not speculation or a prediction. Only a report of the Power Range with Fib extensions for target hunting. Do your DD! You determine your risk tolerance. You are fully capable of making your own decisions.
BA: Back Adjusted
BuZ/BeZ: Bull Zone / Bear Zone
NZ: Neutral Zone
NASDAQ 100 (NQ1!): Wait For Valid Buys! #nasdaq Welcome back to the Weekly Forex Forecast for the week of Oct. 20-24th.
In this video, we will analyze the following FX market: NASDAQ (NQ1!) NAS100
The NASDAQ had ranged last week, but had a bullish end on Friday. I suspect we may see some continuation to the upside this week.
Wait for confirmation before taking valid buys setups.
I don't see a reason to look for sells. A bearish break of market structure would be a good reason.
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NQ UpdateMFI heading down but RSI is not. That's a sign of a melt up.
Really odd with that huge gap below. NFLX earnings don't mean much to futures aside from being 2.77% of the index. 5% drop for 2.77% of the index is 35 points. NQ is down 37 pts right now.
Market needs big news to drop. Not sure I see anything on the horizon until Trump talks to China next week. We'll see tomorrow.
Also, gap direction depends on what Europe does, not NFLX.
''...a barrow by the wide Hellespont.''"And some one shall one day say even of men that are yet to be,
as he saileth in his many-benched ship over the wine-dark sea:
'This is a barrow of a man that died in olden days, whom on a time
in the midst of his prowess the glorious Hector slew.' So shall some man say, and my glory shall never die."
As we knew from a prior post, Hector would win this rematch of an ancient duel on the Trojan plains. Hector, Prince of Troy, with his feet firmly set, appears to have slain Ajax - the human fortress, Ajax - the Monster Head & Shoulders.
Translation of Homer's Iliad attributed to T. Murray
Are we out of this Bloody Battlefield once and for all? I don't know. Many who know far more than I predict the markets will continue to chop and at some point, toward year's end and throughout 2026 will continue higher. There are others that see a looming recession.
One thing we do know for sure - we can clearly see Support and Resistance, VPOCs and Prior VPOCs, Cups and their Handles and Buy the Dip areas.
And we have several trade plans that work in a bull market.
Our Strong Support for the time being has moved higher.
"...the glorious Hector" has a new plain upon which to firmly set his feet and do battle.






















