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MES MICROS TRADE PLAN Are You Cleared for Takeoff? The Pre-Trade Preflight Every Futures Trader Needs Posted: Tuesday June 09, 2026 ☀️ AM BRIEFING Tuesday, June 9 is the day before CPI — no major news drivers today, but the calendar matters tomorrow. This MES micro futures trade plan briefing delivered a full session of trader education: a deep look at the three-contract system, a live breakdown of last night's Battle Plan entries, a complete S&P 500 futures pre-market analysis with a bull-bear scorecard, and something brand new — a twelve-question pre-trade preflight checklist. If you're learning how to trade ES micro futures with discipline and consistency, this one is worth reading twice. The Micros Trader System: What It's Actually Built For The system isn't about being in trades all day. It's built around taking fewer, higher-quality, pre-planned, well-thought-out entries — executed with precision and held with patience. He...

MES MICROS BEST TRADE SETUPS Battle Plan Where To Go Long... Where To Go Short. TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES Good ES trade plan. Entry was difficult… but the mapping on the money. We were looking for shorts in the right place and longs in the right place. Battle Plan 2️⃣ | ES Long Setup Although entry was difficult with the large candles last night, we looked for the right trade and the right trade location. That's half the battle when trading. Where should I go long and where should I go short! That's the entire purpose of the Battle Plan: to keep us on the right side of price action. 🔥 A sixty to eighty pointer — had you gotten an entry and held a lotto runner. Because of the monster candles and the news coming out of Iran at a feverish pace, I stood down. Price hit the target overnight. Oh well… There's another high probability trade around the corner. Battle Plan 1️⃣ | ES Short Setup As I said on Zoom this morn...

MES MICROS BEST TRADE SETUPS Battle Plan Where To Go Long... Where To Go Short. TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES Top Lessons From Last Week's Trading. Your browser does not support the audio element. STAND DOWN WHEN ES VOMITS. Every day this week, the Battle Plan carried the same warning: if ES starts dropping with 15-plus point candles to the south, stand back. No knife catching. No hero trades. No calling a bottom. We finally got that vomit day on Friday. The traders who listened were protected. The traders who ignored it found out the hard way. When the market starts liquidating, levels that bounced price perfectly all week will get blown through like they aren't even there. Your only job in that moment is to do nothing. TRADE LOCATION FIRST. ALWAYS. No level, no trade. Make price come to you. That phrase was said every single session this week, and it was right every time. The traders who waited for Battle Plan locations got...

MES MICROS TRADE PLAN Know Your Number Before Non-Farm Payroll Hits — Trade What Your Plan Allows Posted: Friday June 05, 2026 ☀️ AM BRIEFING It's Non-Farm Payroll Friday... and your MES micro futures trade plan should already be telling you exactly what to do. This session walked through the most important rule of any NFP day — know your weekly P&L number before the number drops, and let that dictate your risk budget. It also reviewed last night's core strategy short that captured 27 points using the three-contract trailing system, laid out a clean economic calendar for next week, and delivered one actionable level for today: Battle Plan 4 at 7510. Before you trade anything, know your number. NFP Friday — Know Your Number Before the Number Drops Non-Farm Payroll is also known as "not for professionals" — and that phrase exists for a reason. It's not that you can't trade it. It's that the risk math changes completely wh...

MES MICROS BEST TRADE SETUPS Battle Plan Where To Go Long... Where To Go Short. TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES Battle Plan 3️⃣ | ES Short Setup Talk about a super clean entry with no heat.  🔥 Had you kept a runner to the next Strong Level that was a 27-point trade.  What do you do if you make 27 points the night before... the day before NFP? Green > Greed comes to mind!  ES Setups in RTH Today Be sure to watch the video to see how we traded on the day before non-farm payroll.  Above the Bull Bear Strong Level line, we were looking for longs to target two levels and to not short.  If we dropped back inside of the Bull Bear Strong Level level with a vengeance, we were looking to get short, hopefully arriving at Battle Plan 4️⃣ below.  Once again, you have to trade what is happening, not what you want to happen.  Tip of the Day Trade what is happening, not what you want to happen.  Scoreboard Points...