Range Rules Rule: How to Trade a Range-Bound ES Futures Market
Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Longs at the bottom. Shorts at the top. Never the reverse. The complete playbook for the market condition the ES lives in most of the time. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Range rules govern how you trade a range-bound market: look for longs only at the bottom of an established range and shorts only at the top… never the reverse. You skip the choppy middle, peel contracts as price crosses the range, and hold a runner in case an edge finally breaks. In ES E-mini futures, this one framework covers most trading days of the year. George calls range trading one of the top things he brings to his live futures trading room… "understanding range rules and trading the range rules beautifully" (May 2, 2026). This page pulls the whole teaching together: where to enter, where to stand aside, how ranges fake tr...