ES & MES Futures Trade Plan #372
Battle Plan
Where To Go Long... Where To Go Short.
ES & MES FUTURES TRADE PLAN #372
TODAY'S REVIEW: ES FUTURES
ES Traders Were Warned...
ES is at all-time highs… a small "expected range" this week… August price action dead as a doornail… no news drivers within sight… and OPEX looming on Friday…
So… "Moderate expectations."
We expected little… and little is exactly what the market delivered most of the AM session.
Although trading opportunities were limited, traders are gonna trade. Just keep it tight.
Battle Plan 2️⃣ | ES Short Setup
🔥 30-point Battle Plan 2️⃣ | ES Short
An "aggressive" trader could have taken the positional short at 7779 as discussed on Zoom and YouTube live.
"So, look for a short here (at 97). Not a horrible positional short."
Inside the live trading room I added, "So if you're positionally short, you're probably going to take a little bit of back and forth, back and forth. You just have to want to be able to handle the stop loss above the Friday close. If it releases, it'll be an amazing trade."
I reinforced the concept a few times. "So, if you're short, you might take some back and forth here before it releases."
After much back-and-forth price action… a few hours later… Battle Plan 2️⃣ presented itself again.
This short was a perfect blend of 3M Core Strategy and the actual Battle Plan mapping.
In fact, ES's price moved in near perfect unison with the outlined mapping.
We will use Jacky's entry for illustration. Short 96 with a lead contract and lotto runner. "I am Short 96, Trading your BP 2 with the 3M FS."
We discussed following one contract at 50% of the move... while being aware of the Strong Level below and the drop zone for Battle Plan 1️⃣. Both potential turn-around locations.
That said, if you're short, stay short and hold a lotto runner. The risk:reward of this trade was too attractive to cut profits early. Learning to hold lotto runners is often the best trade futures traders can make.
Jacky was smart and shoved his lotto runner just above the Strong Level, which was also 50% of the move. The best of both worlds.
I was hoping price action would release like this (time-stamped video).
Tip of the Day
Right Trade, Even When It Loses:
The right trade in the right location sometimes loses. Take it again anyway.
You're building a career on repetition of correct decisions… single outcomes are just noise.
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Scoreboard
Points Accumulated This Week:
Battle Plan: 30+
🔥 Certainly not going to say the entry was picture perfect. There were multiple opportunities to be short. Especially if you took the positional short as outlined on Zoom.
Zoom: 25
If you took the positional short, you did well. I don't know whether to call that a Zoom trade or not, but I certainly encourage that as an option for the aggressive traders with a clearly defined six point stop loss.
I tried to be short twice and both were break even trades, so I chose not to take a third positional trade. Sticking to your rules is always the right move.
Core Strategy: 25+
🔥 25+ FS FVG Short
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COMMON QUESTIONS FOR ES FUTURES TRADERS
What is the Battle Plan for ES and MES futures?
A: The Battle Plan is a daily trade map for ES and MES futures. It marks the exact price levels where the best long and short setups are likely to appear before the session begins. Each numbered setup tells you where to enter, where your stop belongs, and where to take profit. You trade the plan... you skip the guesswork in between.
What is a Strong Level?
A: A Strong Level is a mapped price zone where ES has a high probability of reacting... stalling, bouncing, or reversing. Traders use Strong Levels as targets, as turn-around warnings, and as smart spots to trail a stop. In this Battle Plan, the Strong Level below price marked a potential turn-around location for the short trade, so stops on runners were tucked just above it.
What is the Core Strategy?
A: The Core Strategy is the repeatable entry method taught at Micros Trader, built around 3 minute chart patterns like the FVG, or Fair Value Gap. The highest quality trades come when a Core Strategy signal fires at a mapped Battle Plan level. That is exactly what happened with this short... the 3M Core Strategy entry lined up with Battle Plan mapping, and price released for 25 plus points.
What is a lotto runner?
A: A lotto runner is a small piece of a winning position you leave on after taking profit on your lead contracts. You move the stop to a protected spot... just above a Strong Level for a short... and let it ride toward a bigger target. Learning to hold lotto runners is often the best trade futures traders can make. It costs little when it stops out and pays big when price keeps going.
What does right trade, even when it loses mean?
A: It means the right trade in the right location sometimes loses... and you take it again anyway. You are building a career on repetition of correct decisions. Single outcomes are just noise. Judge yourself on whether you executed the plan at the mapped level, then let the math of repetition do its work.
MICROS TRADER BASICS
Stand Down
Stand Down is one of the most important calls George makes in the daily Battle Plan and on live Zoom sessions. It means the conditions are not right, the risk is not worth it, and flat is the position.
Micros Trader places equal emphasis on when to enter and when to step aside entirely. High-volatility events, news releases, vomit mode price action... these are sessions where the most disciplined decision is to close the platform and protect capital. Knowing when to Stand Down is a skill. Micros Trader develops it.
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