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Initial Balance | Futures Trading Explained

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member The Initial Balance is the price range built during the first 60 minutes of the regular trading session. For ES and MES, that means 9:30 to 10:30 New York time. You mark the highest price and the lowest price printed in that hour, and those two lines become your IB high and IB low for the rest of the day. The idea comes from Market Profile, developed by Peter Steidlmayer at the Chicago Board of Trade and spread widely by Jim Dalton's work. In the pit days, that first hour was when the floor traders established the early range of balance while the bigger overnight and institutional orders got filled. The concept survived the move to screens because the logic still holds. The first hour is where the overnight session, the morning news, and the opening orders all collide. The range they leave behind becomes a reference the market answers to all day. Learn more: Full lesson: Initial Balance — The Trading Libra...
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Trend Line Trading Rules for ES Futures Day Traders

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member How George draws them, why he never enters on them, and the break-and-backtest that actually pays. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. A trend line is a diagonal level. You draw it through a beginning point, an anchor, and the touches price leaves behind. It becomes real on the third touch. Until then it's a guess. George treats a valid trend line the same way he treats horizontal support and resistance on ES E-mini futures… a landmark that tells him where price is likely to react. The line itself never says buy or sell. This page gathers George's full trend line doctrine from hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures sessions… how to draw one that works, why you don't trade off the line itself, the exact rules against longing or shorting right at it, and the break-and-backtest that shows...
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How to Write a Trading Plan for Futures Day Trading

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Your convictions documented in advance… decided when you were thinking clearly, so the market never gets to decide for you. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. A trading plan is your convictions documented in advance. It is a written document that names your setups, your rules, your risk limits, and your reasons before you ever place a live trade. When the pressure hits and the market demands you chase or deviate, you don't deliberate. The decision was already made when you were calm. That is the whole job of the written trade plan. This page gathers everything George teaches about building a written plan across hundreds of hours of live ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures sessions… why winging it never works, how to pre-decide your rules, why the "why" section may matter most of all, and how ...
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ES & MES Futures Trade Plan #371

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member MES MICROS BEST TRADE SETUPS Battle Plan Where To Go Long... Where To Go Short. ES & MES FUTURES TRADE PLAN #371 SUNDAY/MONDAY RTH SETUPS 📝 Posted: Friday, August 14, 2026 🎧 Read Aloud — Listen to Today's Battle Plan Your browser does not support the audio element. TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES Base Hits  Singles and doubles, all week long. We ran the same play over and over.  To use a football analogy… we ran it straight up the middle… the entire game… three yards at a time.  Grinding out first downs. No highlight reel. No long bomb. Just chains moving. Zero 100 pointers this week. We usually get one Hail-Mary. Two weeks ago we had four or five, and one of them ran 400 points all by itself. Sure, the scoreboard looks pitiful... Look closer. We never abandon our trade plan, not even once. Day in and day out, we read the dai...
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