The Battle Plan: Pre-Mapped ES and MES Trade Setups for Every Session

Every night, George maps where he wants to go long, where he wants to go short, and where each trade is wrong… before price ever gets there. This is the plan the whole system runs on.

From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library… 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018.

The Battle Plan is George's nightly trade map for ES E-mini futures and MES micro futures. Before each session he publishes numbered trade zones on the chart… where he wants to go long, where he wants to go short, and where each trade is wrong. Then he waits for price to arrive and trades the plan.

He keeps the claim honest, too. "It's just my best educated guess of where we want to engage in price" (March 6, 2026). No crystal ball. Just hundreds of sessions of asking the same question every night and marking the answer on the chart. This page covers where the Battle Plan came from, what lives inside one, why the mapping leans long, and what trading from a pre-built map does to your patience and your P&L.

“"That's the purpose of the battle plan. Where do we want to go long? Where do we want to go short?"”

— George, live session, Mar 6, 2026

ES futures Battle Plan chart from George’s published record

From George’s published record: MES Micros Trade Plan #318 | 5 Great Setups — a 70+-point move, mapped in advance.

Where the Battle Plan Came From

The Battle Plan started as George's own fix for a problem every futures day trader knows. Too many levels. Too many ticks. Too much noise. The answer was to zoom out and pick the handful of places actually worth trading.

The maps improved his own trading first. Then he started publishing them… "that was the genesis of mapping out the battle plan trades and I went, 'Man, these are really improving my trading. Let me share these with you'" (March 17, 2026). Years later he calls the discipline itself the payoff: "Crafting these battle plans has made me a better trader and a better teacher. That's the truth" (February 24, 2026).

“"Core principle behind the battle plan trades is I needed a way for me to quit trying to trade every freaking tick and every freaking level and go, 'Dude, you got to zoom out a little bit.'"”

— George, live session, Mar 17, 2026

George has taught this in 140+ recorded sessions… and every claim in the full lesson links to the recording it came from. The full lesson covers far more than fits here.

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