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Journal the Trade Before You Place It: The Pre-Entry Filter

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Battle Plan · Trading Room · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Write the entry down first. If you can't defend it on paper, you don't take it. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Journal the trade before you place it. You write the entry in your journal first: the level, the reasons, the logic. Only then do you click buy or sell. The act of writing it forces your mind to simulate being in the trade before a single dollar is at risk. Bad entries reveal themselves on paper. Good ones earn their place. That one habit is George's pre-entry filter for ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures alike. This page gathers everything George teaches about the pre-entry filter across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… why writing the trade first stops impulse entries, the one question that gates every click, how to defend an entry to a panel of peers...

How Do You Set A Stop Loss On A Runner In ES Futures? | AM Briefing #887

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Battle Plan · Trading Room · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Together We Trade Better AM BRIEFING ES CHART | KEY LEVELS | SETUPS Today’s Schedule Pre-Market AM Briefing Watch on YouTube 15 Minutes Prior to Opening ES Live Trading Room Join the Live Room After Market Close Battle Plan Get Tonight’s Battle Plan Today at a Glance Keep the stop where your read says the trade is wrong. On yesterday's short, failing to take back the overnight high was George's canary in the coal mine, so a stop above the overnight high and the previous day POC would have survived and easily paid a 100 plus pointer. Date: Friday, October 30, 2026 Overnight: ES did not stay close to yesterday's POC in the overnight session. News Drivers: Exxon and Chevron report earnings before the open on the last trading day of the month, with Apple, AMD, the congressional elections and non-farm payroll coming up next week. Lesson of the Day: Keep your runner'...

ES & MES Futures Trade Plan #424

Battle Plan · Trading Room · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Trial Offer | Membership Options | Login ES & MES FUTURES BATTLE PLAN #424 THURSDAY/FRIDAY RTH SETUPS TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES Nothing I wrote in the group, "This was an untradeable mess." Eric added, "Untenable. Uninspired. Unrepentant." Hear, hear! Day After FOMC The day after FOMC is no joke. It is often just as dangerous. I'm not saying take the day off, but I'm saying give it the respect it deserves. Traders forcing trades today got hurt. Then they would chase and price would reverse.  Members Only That Is a Taste of Tonight’s Battle Plan. The levels, the trade ideas, the notes and the audio are inside. See Our Latest Trial Offer Membership Options Educational purposes only. Trading involves risk. Nothing here is personalized trading advice. 📍 Originally published on MicrosTrader.com Free Training · No Signup Required ⚔️ Battle Plan Boot Camp This...

Be in the Preparation Business, Not the Prediction Business

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Battle Plan · Trading Room · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Nobody predicts the market. You prepare for it… map the trade before it happens, and let the work pay you. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Preparation beats prediction. The prediction business asks the wrong question… which way will the market go tomorrow? Nobody knows. The preparation business asks a better one: where are my trades, and what do I do when price arrives? George maps the levels before the session and lets the market come to the plan. This page gathers the philosophy underneath George's whole routine across hundreds of live ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures sessions… why screen time builds the skill, how a sharp axe beats brute force, and why the plans of the diligent lead to profit. “"Don't be in the prediction business. Be in the preparation business. Map out your t...