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Be a Risk-First Trader: Plan Your Risk Before Your Reward

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Plan your risk before your reward. Count the cost of every trade before you ever think about the profit. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Being a risk-first trader means one thing. You know your maximum loss before you ever look at the potential profit. Reward comes second, always. You work as a risk manager, first and always. Every entry starts with a single question… what does this trade cost me if I'm wrong? This page pulls together everything George teaches about the risk-first mindset across hundreds of hours of live ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures trading… what you actually control, why you count the cost before you commit, and why a trader who can't manage risk won't last long. Master this one and every other lesson in the library gets easier. “"Risk first. Okay? Ever...

Stay Within the Box: Position Sizing and Your Emotional Risk Threshold

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member If you care about one trade's outcome, you're trading too big… find the number that hurts but doesn't break you. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Your emotional risk threshold is the dollar loss you can take and still think clearly. Cross it and your mind stops working. You freeze, you freak out, you make bad decisions. The single greatest discipline in ES E-mini futures is sizing every trade so a loss lands at or below that line. George calls it staying within the Box. This page is the emotional half of position sizing… how to find your threshold, honor it without shame, and let MES micro futures moderate your mind while your size grows slowly. The math half, the actual leverage metrics that build the Box, lives in Position Sizing: No Single Trade Should Hurt You. Read them together. “...

ES & MES Futures Trade Plan #415

Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Trial Offer | Membership Options | Login ES & MES FUTURES TRADE PLAN #415 SUNDAY/MONDAY RTH SETUPS 📝 Posted: Saturday, October 17, 2026 TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES Best ES Short SetUp  What Is the Best ES Short Setup? Answer:  Right after a failed short covering rally, when the ES bulls cannot maintain above the Bull Bear key level and drop right back into the range we just reclaimed. Any ES futures trader can expect an even larger move down the chart. We don't map out many shorts, but when we do, they often pay. 🔥 100+ Point ES Short Setup The Battle Plan 2️⃣ notes are critical here:  "Possible short idea for the aggressive trader with perfect risk management. Require us to get back under the new Bull Bear Line. Select a reasonable stop above the Bull Bear Line. The risk-to-reward on this trade could be great. At least require ES to reach the Strong Range there around 78...

News Drivers: How to Read the Economic Calendar Before You Trade

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Before you plan a single trade, know what the economic calendar is about to throw at the market… and where the landmines sit. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. News Drivers are the scheduled economic events that move the market. CPI, FOMC, non-farm payroll, Powell speaking, PMI, PCE. Reading them means scanning the economic calendar before the open, flagging the red and orange folder events, and marking their exact release times on your chart as no-trade zones. Do this first, before you plan a single ES E-mini futures entry. The calendar tells you how dangerous the day is going to be. This page gathers everything George teaches about News Drivers across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… where to find them, how to grade the day's danger with Level 10 Trading, when to Stand Down en...

AM Briefing #877 · The Opex Friday Trap: When Standing Down Is The Trade

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Together We Trade Better AM BRIEFING ES CHART | KEY LEVELS | SETUPS ES Technical Analysis — AM Briefing 877 Timeline Friday October 16, 2026 TIME CHAPTER 0:00 Welcome ES MES Futures Traders 0:28 Opex Friday & Briefing #877 Happy Opex Friday, October 16, AM Briefing #877. This week's scripture… the horse is prepared for the day of battle. 0:53 Opex Party Rules & Light Week Ahead Opex rules on steroids mean a very large expected range. Next week is light, and a few banks report before the open. 1:18 Yesterday's Long Hit Its Target The plan was longs only. Price rotated back to the top of the range right into the close… range traders trading the range well. 1:57 Battle Plan 1 Continuation Add-On Battle Plan 1 is a continuation add-on at the top of t...