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Initial Balance Trading: The IB High/Low Statistics Every ES Trader Should Know

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member The first hour draws two lines on the chart. The data on what price does with them is uncanny… and tradeable. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. The Initial Balance is the first hour's range. It's the swing high and swing low ES E-mini futures carves out in the opening hour of the RTH session, 9:30 to 10:30 Eastern. That's it. The IB high and the IB low. Two lines, drawn by the market before most of the day's story is written. Simple to draw. Loaded with edge. George has run the numbers on the first hour range for years and hands you the statistics straight… how often one side breaks, how often both break, which side breaks more, and how big the range tends to be. Know the odds and you stop guessing at the open. “"The IB high and low is nothing more than the first hour high and l...

Stealing Bounce Power: Why Repeated Tests Break Support and Resistance

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Every support and resistance level holds a finite number of bounces… beat it up enough and the ground gives way. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Bounce Power is the finite energy stored in a support or resistance level. Every time price tests a level and reacts, it spends a little of that stored power. Beat the level up enough times and it eventually breaks. That's why a fresh, untested level bounces hard and a level that has been hammered all day and all night finally gives out. This page collects everything George teaches about Bounce Power across hundreds of hours of live ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures trading… why the first reaction off a level is the strongest, how repeated tests soften the ground, why volume marks the traders defending price, and the honest limit of it all. No level is a ...

ES & MES Futures Trade Plan #386

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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 #386 SUNDAY/MONDAY RTH SETUPS 📝 Posted: Friday, September 4, 2026 🎧 Read Aloud — Listen to Today's Battle Plan Your browser does not support the audio element. 🎬 THIS WEEK'S ZOOM RECAP VIDEOS Tuesday's Recap ⏱️ Video Chapters 0:00 Long Entry Off The 50 Level 0:39 Stop To Breakeven, Hands Free 1:10 Fair Value Gap Candles Extend Move 1:41 Peeling Partials Into The Strong Level 2:43 Casey Banks 15 To 17 Points 4:22 Battle Plan Three Trade Location Explained 5:55 One Contract Home Run Walkthrough 7:00 Green Day And Member Journals 8:10 Two Trades To Watch Next Wednesday's Recap ⏱️ Video Chapters 0:00 Peeling ES and Reentering With Micros 0:45 Long From the Ideal Trade Location 1:54 Reviewing the Battle Plan Notes 2:3...