About ESDaily

A Daily Gameplan for ES Futures

ESDaily is a focused daily newsletter for S&P/ES futures traders, built entirely around price action. Each morning I break down charts, mark key daily levels, and lay out a clear trade plan for the day.

The goal is simple:

Give you the same structure and discipline I use in my own trading.

I started ESDaily as a private journal — a way to reduce screen time, write out my thoughts, and strip emotion out of my trades.

Sharing it publicly turned out to be useful, educational, and surprisingly rare in a world where few traders show real clarity, precision, and transparency.

I don’t pretend to “know” where price is going. I’ve never “beaten” the market. The difference is I respect price — and I trade only what it shows me. No forcing. No manufactured setups.

What Type of Trader Am I?

People often ask me if I’m a scalper, a day trader, or a swing trader. The truth is, I don’t fit neatly into any of those boxes.

I trade around structure.

Most of my trades are intraday because that’s where ES gives the cleanest opportunities. But I’m not here to clip a few ticks and call it a day. I don’t scalp noise, and I don’t hold blind swing positions hoping for luck.

Instead, I focus on high-quality setups — failed breakdowns, level track-backs, and reclaim zones — and I manage them with discipline: take T1, reduce risk, and let a runner ride if the structure supports it. Sometimes that means I’m flat by the end of RTH. Other times, I’ll carry a small runner into Globex or beyond.

I don’t define myself by the label.

I define myself by the process: respecting price, following structure, and waiting for the setups that matter.

What’s Inside The ESDaily Gameplan

You can see an example here.

Intro

Every Gameplan opens with a theme, a principle pulled directly from the prior day’s action. Sometimes it’s about structure itself. Other times it’s profit-taking, trade management, or the discipline to do nothing. Whatever the focus, it’s anchored in real trades, not theory. This section connects yesterday’s action to today’s plan, turning experience into a lesson and setting the tone for the opportunities ahead.

Timeframe Analysis

Each day is a building block in the bigger structure of ES.

These blocks define the environment we’re in, and over time they stack together into a complete map of the market.

Every Gameplan begins with a zoom-out across the Daily, 4h, 45m, and 15m charts—not to label trend up or down.

This is about reading the story price is telling.

I look at how shelves are being built or defended, where vacuums open between them, and whether an impulse leg is gaining follow-through or running out of fuel. When momentum stretches, I’m watching for warning signs: failed reclaims, sloppy acceptance, or microstructure shifts that turn an orderly stair-step into a vacuum slide.

The point is simple:
Structure comes first.

If shelves hold, the trend stays intact. Lose them, and the tempo changes fast.

That’s why this section frames the entire Gameplan: it defines whether today’s opportunities align with strength, fade into balance, or open the door to discovery lower.

High and Medium Priority Support & Resistances

Levels are the backbone of the Gameplan.

Each edition includes a ranked map of the High- and Medium-Priority supports and resistances.

High-priority levels are proven shelves where price has built, defended, and reset. Medium-priority levels provide context, shaping tempo between the majors.

Together, they show where real battles are likely to take place and where the air is thin, the zones I avoid. These aren’t trade signals. They’re the framework: the map that shows where acceleration is possible and where opportunity can emerge if structure confirms.

Opportunities

This is where the Gameplan becomes actionable.

Each day I highlight the areas most likely to attract large institutional order flow, the zones where price has the potential to really move.

For every opportunity, I lay out the “why,” the required price behavior, and the ideal approach.

These aren’t guesses, and they aren’t random.

They’re structure-focused, rule-based, and repeatable scenarios built from my core strategy.

Some will trigger, others won’t.

The discipline is in waiting for price to meet my criteria, not manufacturing trades that aren’t there.

How Often I Trade?

Answer:

It depends but on average < 1 trade per day.

Not every day.
Not every week.

That’s not a bug — it’s the feature.
Sitting out is part of the process.

Most traders overtrade.

In a study done by the CFTC:

More Transactions Has A Direct Correlation With Lower Returns

I only trade when the combination of price/structure and reward:risk give me a Grade A+ setup.

Some weeks that means I’ll take multiple trades.
Other weeks, I’ll sit on my hands and wait.

On average, I write 1–3 opportunities into the daily Gameplan.
Some trigger, some don’t.

I’d rather miss a move than force one.

Trading is about selectivity, not activity.

My edge comes from respecting price and waiting for the right conditions, not from pressing buttons every day.

I’m a trader who writes. Not a writer who trades.

🔍 Be careful who you follow.
🎧 Be careful who you listen to.
🤝 Find someone who’s transparent—someone who spends more time on their losers than their wins.
🎁 Find someone who gives more than they ask for.

I trade the exact same setups I write about and I love sharing here.

Thanks for checking out ESDaily!
-PriceTrader