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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 ...

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...

How to Map Out Trades in Advance (Before the Market Opens)

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Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Draw the trade before you take it. Sketch the entries, targets, and failure cases the night before… so the open finds you ready. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. Mapping out trades in advance means sketching your setups before the market opens. You draw the entry, the target, and the point where the idea fails… then you wait for price to arrive. In George's ES E-mini futures sessions, that pre-session map is the Battle Plan: a handful of numbered if-then scenarios built the night before, so you execute mechanically instead of reacting live to every candle. This page gathers what George teaches about pre-session mapping across hundreds of hours of live ES and MES micro futures trading… how to write an if-then scenario, why he maps both sides of price action, and the harder discipline of mapping nothing at...