ES Futures Long Setup! Ride the Bullish Momentum!
🚀 **ES Futures Long Setup! Ride the Bullish Momentum!** 🚀
📊 **TRADE IDEA – E-mini S\&P 500 (ES)**
**💡 Direction:** LONG
**🎯 Entry Price:** 6489.75 (Market Open)
**🛑 Stop Loss:** 6440.60 (ATR-based, \~49 pts)
**📈 Take Profit:** 6588.06 (2:1 R\:R)
**📏 Position Size:** 1 contract (scale per risk tolerance)
**💪 Confidence:** 62%
**🔥 Trade Rationale:**
* Price above 10/20/50/200 SMAs & EMA9/21 → bullish alignment ✅
* ATR-aware stop protects against volatility ⚡
* Reward-to-risk ratio 2:1 for controlled upside 💹
* Cautiously bullish: MACD short-term mixed, but overall trend supports a long
**⚠️ Key Risks:**
* Negative MACD histogram → possible short-term pullback
* ATR high → dollar risk per contract larger
* Price near 20-day high → monitor for resistance
* Economic data releases can increase volatility
**📌 Execution Notes:**
* Enter at market open at 6489.75
* ATR-based stop below 6440.6
* Target 6588.06, consider scaling out or partial profit taking
💥 **Don’t miss this ES long trade with defined risk & high upside potential!**
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ES - Weekly Trading Plan - September 8th-12thSeptember 7th - 11:40am EST - Weekly Post
Recap of last week's plan - I stated on Saturday August 30th - "I do believe we can still rally up to 6547, 6563+ this week, but IF, we lose the 6369 level, that would be a big blow to bulls, and it would need to be sharp reclaim back inside the white trendline to keep momentum." (See Related Publications section)
We had a low volume Labor Day holiday, but when institutions came back on Tuesday around 10am EST we set the weekly low at 6371.75, reclaimed the white trend line and we climbed all week into our first target of 6547 and made a high of the week of 6542 on Friday and sold off.
(I post a more detailed daily plan - follow me so you don't miss my daily updates).
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What is the plan for this week? Remember, Institutions hunt for levels to run stops and then take that level higher or lower. You can review my daily trade plan from Friday and see that I was anticipating a potential sell off after the open. Retail traders were bullish, got caught offsides, Institutions start to sell, all the retail long stops got taken out and Institutions stepped in on Friday afternoon and flushed Thursday's low of 6458 while everyone thought we were going much lower, created a short squeeze and we ended Friday around the 6490 level.
Our weekly low was 6371.75 with a high of 6542 put in on Friday. The white trend line continues to be sold below and then taken higher. I anticipate trapping this week as we look towards the FOMC on 17th and Quarterly Window Dressing by Institutions with the following economic events this week:
Wednesday - September 10th - PPI
Thursday - September 11th - CPI
We have to stay bullish until proven otherwise, last week 6369 was the key level to hold and we did. This week 6410-6425 really needs to hold. I could see us pulling back into the 6425-6435 zone, trapping and moving us higher. The first big level I will be looking for a flush and reclaim is 6453-6458 area, that was last Thursday and Friday's levels. Since we have produced some nice rallies from this area, we could bounce, flush down to 6430-35, catch everyone offsides and then rally higher. (I will go into more detail on Monday Daily Trade Plan)
Key Support Levels - 6370, 6427, 6443, 6453-58
Key Resistance Levels - 6496, 6507-09, 6520, 6542
Target Levels for Week - 6567, IF, price wants it we could go higher to 6597, 6615 but those are not my main targets for the week as the white trendline around 6567 should be a strong resistance.
We could see a similar cycle to last week, drop Monday down to one of the key support levels, flush and take us higher to the white trendline (6567) area and then sell of Friday like we did this week.
Follow to read my daily trade plan - I will send out tonight's Sunday Session Open Trade Plan by 5pm EST.
MES1! WEEK 37 SEPT 7TH Looking for MON. TUE, WED HIGH of the week trading above $6500. LOOK TO TAKE SELLS FROM THE PREMIUM END OF THE CURRENT DEALING RANGE.
THERE ARE RELATIVE EQUAL LOWS AT $6430 AND $6365.
IF -- PRICE CAN NOT GET BLOW THE DISCOUNT RANGE THEN YOU ARE OFF SIDE AND SHOULD LOOK TO BUY FOR HIGHER PRICES.
CALANDER EVENT
TUES
-10AM - PMI (HIGH)
- 2PM - TRUMP SPEAKS
WED
-10AM - JOLT's JOB OPENING (HIGH)
THUR
-8:30AM - NF- EMPLOYMENT CHANGE (HIGH)
-10AM - PMI (HIGH)
FRIDAY
-8:30AM - NFP / UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (HIGH)
- UNEMPLOYMENT CHANGE (HIGH)
-4PM - TRUMP SPEAKES
Note - find 6pm=6am dealing range.
- note any smaller ranges within the DR that we can trade form on the 15m.5m.or 1m
FED Rate Cuts Aren’t the Blessing You Think — History Proves ItIn this video I ll take you thru historical macro events and we will see how it all rhymes with current markets conditions.
Here is link to my initial article with the data
Remember: Macro takes time to play and price can be going for months before the crash happens watch charts Im mentioning and whole picture will starts to show to you.
Stay safe and protect your wealth and family. Next 5 years of the 4th Turning can be violent not only on the markets.
David Perk
Stock Index: The AI Bubble That Will Burst!ES
S&P 500 futures finishes up 0.23% as economic slowdown worries cloud rate-cut optimism. From a technical perspective, this week marks the third consecutive where ES has been trading inside of 11 Aug 25 bullish spinning top candle indicating weakness of bulls after reaching uncharted territory of $6,541.75 all-time highs.
Such signs point to a short-term retracement down into discount arrays but I am not here trying to guess the top. If it does occur, $6,355.00 is an area of interest but on an overall basis, I want to be neutral until Sunday’s opening price / opening gap.
NQ
Nasdaq follows with a 0.93% gain but with the same issue of price trading within a range, in this case, since the 4th Aug 25 weekly bullish marabozu was printed, I would not want to put my money on a continued run as of yet. Preeing short-term retracements with a discount array @ $22,781.75 is being watched closely and for the time being, I want to be neutral
YM
Dow Jones closes -0.37% lower this week with the intermediate highs of $45,887 still in tact. Will the monthly buyside liquidity pool be used to suck in unexpected bull traders before repricing to HTF discount arrays?
If I am to see a decline in the 3 stock index pairs, YM will be the pair to lookout for as the front-running market.
Automating TradingView Alerts to Tradovate (Step 1: Webhook + JSWelcome to the first video on my channel, Quant by Boji.
In this series, I’m walking you through how to build a complete end-to-end automation pipeline that takes alerts from TradingView and turns them into real trades on Tradovate, with confirmations sent to Telegram.
In this first episode, I cover the foundation:
Creating an indicator in TradingView using Pine Script
Adding the alertcondition() function so alerts know when to fire
Setting up an alert in TradingView with the Webhook URL
Writing a JSON message in the alert so your server has all the data it needs
By the end of this video, you’ll understand how TradingView can send structured alerts directly to your server, which is the first step in connecting it all to Tradovate.
⚠️ Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only. I’m not providing financial advice. Futures trading carries substantial risk, so always start in paper trading and do your own due diligence.
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Day 24 — Trading Only S&P Futures | +$264 Overnight WinWelcome to Day 24 of Trading Only S&P Futures!
Today was all about patience and levels. I noticed the market had already made a huge move yesterday, so I bet it couldn’t push much further overnight. I shorted at 6525 and woke up to a $250+ profit by market open.
That was enough for me — the plan worked perfectly, so I stayed mostly on the sidelines for the rest of the day. Both our overnight level and yesterday’s level played out exactly as expected, which made this a clean session.
Closed the day at +264.83.
📰 News Highlights
U.S. ADDS FEWER-THAN-EXPECTED 22,000 JOBS IN AUGUST, BOOSTING ODDS OF 50BPS CUT
🔑 Key Levels for Tomorrow
Above 6470 = Remain Bullish
Below 6450 = Flip Bearish
return to support during uptrend presents a cheap entry 1->3 : push up marking 2
as proven buyers
3->4 : return to proven buyers
next?
* hidden bull divergence
* behind vpoc 1->3 swing(s)
*uptrend continuation
*bullish bar entry at support
*zone trading 75% probability follow through to profit, though the invalid is below our stop as the zones are too big to align stop with zone stop also
ES - September 5th - Daily Trade PlanSeptember 5th - 7:55am
Last night session I stated - "My lean is we grind sideways and up into the 6523 level overnight and then we will need to wait for the employment report and NYSE to try and get some level losses and reclaims to finish the week at our targets of 6547, 6563+."
Our overnight session has been rangebound between 6512 - 6531. Employment report and NYSE open will determine which direction we move. I will be waiting for price to settle down after initial reactions and look for the best levels that I will be looking for a flush and reclaim would be the 6491 level as it was the high of this week during the Sunday evening session. We could dip down to 6473/79 levels and then rally.
I will update around after employment report and around 10am.
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Couple of things about how I color code my levels.
1. Purple shows the weekly High/Low
2. Red shows the current overnight session High/Low (New chart out in am)
3. Blue shows the previous day's session High/Low
4. Yellow Levels are levels that show support and resistance levels of interest.
5. White shows the trendline from the August lows.
Non Farm Payrolls 0830 EST Non Farm Payrolls (NFP) main event is tomorrow. Big show down between Bulls vs Bears. ADP was a market miss today, will NFP be a market miss?
If jobs report is no bueno will markets blast a roo up because they like the potential for Fed Rate cuts confirmed or will risk markets do a dumpster fire? Only time will tell. 0730 CST is the time to sit by the ringside to find out who wins.
#nonfarmpayrolls
#volitilemarkets
Its Non-Farm: How much will ES Move?Hi all - Happy Non-Farm Friday!
I haven't done this in a while and thought it might be helpful to share my process for estimating the size of the move that we may get on ES after the Non-Farm Payrolls data is released.
I'm not trying to make a prediction on direction here - but more understand where the boundaries could be so I can determine how to trade this (what trading tool I can pull out of my box) once the announcement comes out.
Hope it helps and please let me know if you find it useful and I'll create more posts .
Cheers,
Jeff
ES — Intraday Analyses & A++ Setups (Fri Sep 5, 2025) • Demand (reclaim): 6501–6505 — now support; Trigger-Lock ON
• Continuation line: ~6516 (1.272 area)
• Upside magnets: 6520–6523, 6531–6533, 6548–6552
• Deeper trigger band: 6468–6475 (only relevant on failure back below 6501)
A++ Long Setup
Retest-Hold LONG
• Entry: 6503–6505 on a 5m close + hold of 6501–6505
• SL: 6496–6498 (≤ 6–8 pts)
• TP1: 6520–6523
• TP2: 6531–6533
• TP3: 6548–6552
Invalidation: Any 15m close < 6501 after acceptance.
Failure / Flip path
• If 6501–6505 fails on a 15m close, expect a deeper probe toward 6475.
• Shorts are not active unless we get the full sequence: rejection of 6468–6475 → 15m bearish < 6466 → 5m failed retest 6447–6451 (then use 6432/6422/6413 TP ladder).
Day 23 — Trading Only S&P Futures | +$200 & New Daily RuleWelcome to Day 23 of Trading Only S&P Futures!
I locked in +200.45 on my competition account by shorting the MOB overnight and walking away once my target was hit. Later in the day, I came back to watch and ended up losing on other accounts — which sparked an important realization.
From now on, I’m considering a rule: cap daily gains at 10% of account balance.
For example, with a $2,000 account, my daily target should be $200 max. Anything more means overtrading, staying in the market too long, and risking unnecessary drawdowns.
This might be the structure I need to keep consistent results.
📰 News Highlights
U.S. JOB CUTS TOTAL 85,979 IN AUGUST, HIGHEST FOR THAT MONTH SINCE 2020 — CHALLENGER
🔑 Key Levels for Tomorrow
Above 6470 = Remain Bullish
Below 6450 = Flip Bearish
ES - September 5th - Daily Trade Plan - Evening SessionSeptember 4th - 7:15pm
In today's daily trade plan, I said - "Ideally, we lose 6454, flush and reclaim for a move higher. I expect another choppy day, and we need to clear 6491 to keep this rally moving higher."
At 10:16am price dropped down to 6456.25 and took off higher. You can look at a 4hr chart and see the institutional accumulation that has been happening. You can look at my weekly trading plan in which I stated -
"I do believe we can still rally up to 6547, 6563+ this week, but IF, we lose the 6369 level, that would be a big blow to bulls, and it would need to be sharp reclaim back inside the white trendline to keep momentum."
What did institutions do so far this week? Flush the white trendline, run stops, accumulate and we are heading higher. 6523 is the next big resistance with 6547, 6563 still in play. Price needs to hold 6473 with 6455 being the lowest for us to keep moving higher. Employment report out tomorrow am and usually the initial move will be a fake out. I don't trade prior to the employment report and usually wait until after the NYSE open to evaluate and find a spot to get some points. Since we have closed at highs on the day and we are just going sideways, the best levels that I will be looking for a flush and reclaim would be the 6491 level as it was the high of this week during the Sunday evening session. We could dip down to 6473/79 levels and then rally.
My lean is we grind sideways and up into the 6523 level overnight and then we will need to wait for the employment report and NYSE to try and get some level losses and reclaims to finish the week at our targets of 6547, 6563+.
I will post an updated chart tomorrow before 7am EST.
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Couple of things about how I color code my levels.
1. Purple shows the weekly High/Low
2. Red shows the current overnight session High/Low (New chart out in am)
3. Blue shows the previous day's session High/Low
4. Yellow Levels are levels that show support and resistance levels of interest.
5. White shows the trendline from the August lows.
Bullish energy Just an idea …..I mostly scalp. 20-30% targets. Because the market is respecting higher lows, sustaining above moving averages, and showing momentum confirmation, my bias is bullish. I expect that as long as price holds above the most recent support zone, buyers will continue to press toward the next resistance level.
(ES) – Key Resistance at 6475The ES is approaching a significant resistance zone around the 6475 level, which has the potential to act as a short-term cap on price action. Given the current structure and momentum, ES may struggle to break and hold above this area.
This presents a possible short opportunity near 6475, with a tight stop just above the resistance. If this level holds as resistance, we could see a rejection leading to lower levels in the coming sessions.
Monitor price action closely around this zone for confirmation and manage risk accordingly.
ES - September 4th - Daily Trade PlanSeptember 4th - 6:45am EST
In yesterday's post I said "Ideally, we need to hold the 6426 level or flush and reclaim quickly. IF, price can't rally above 6476, my lean is we are in the midst of a change in character of price, and I will be looking lower for levels to flush and reclaim."
We chopped around all day and ended up breaking below the white trend line to 6426, got bought up and then rallied at end of day. Institutions bought it up and we ended up close to the highs of the day.
Couple of things about how I color code my levels.
1. Purple shows the weekly High/Low
2. Red shows the current overnight session High/Low
3. Blue shows the previous day's session High/Low
4. Yellow Levels are levels that show support and resistance levels of interest.
5. White shows the trendline from the August lows.
What is the game plan for today?
Overnight the low was 6454 with us coming into session highs at 6473.75. Ideally, we can flush 6454 and reclaim for a level to level move higher. IF, price sells off below 6454, we will probably need to head back down to the white trendline which is the 6438 level. 6438-6454 will be a chop fest.
Immediate Resistances - 6473, 6476, 6485, 6491 (Weekly High)
Immediate Supports - 6458, 6454, 6438, 6426, 6412
Ideally, we lose 6454, flush and reclaim for a move higher. I expect another choppy day, and we need to clear 6491 to keep this rally moving higher. We also have employment report out tomorrow am. My lean is we keep chopping up today as we head into the report at 8:30am tomorrow.