Should I Be Trading Today? The Trader's Readiness Check
Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member The honest gate before every session… are the conditions, your body, your focus, and your clock actually fit to trade? From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Should I be trading today? That is the first question George asks before every ES E-mini futures session, and often the answer is no. The readiness check is a short, honest gate. Are the day's conditions worth risking money on? Is your head clear? Is your body rested? Do you have the time to manage a trade? Clear the gate, and you trade. Fail it, and you Stand Down. This page pulls together everything George teaches about the readiness check across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… the three self-check questions he runs on every entry, the days conditions tell you to sit out, and why he treats a futures day trader like an athlete...