September 8 - September 12 ESDaily Gameplans
Current Open Position(s) as of Friday September 12 6:02AM
Daily Gameplans Listed Below
- Monday September 8
- Tuesday September 9
- Wednesday September 10
- Thursday September 11
- Friday September 12
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Monday September 8, 2025
The Heartbeat of 6460
6460–6461 has been the heartbeat of this market for two weeks straight. Every rotation higher or lower has pulsed through it, making it the single most important technical region on the chart.
At first it was a shelf of support, tested over and over into the middle/back half of August.
Buyers leaned on it again and again, and every reclaim produced momentum.
Then, just as I laid out in the Aug 29 Gameplan: Divergence At The Highs, shelves don’t just vanish when they break — they flip.
On Sept 2, 6460 finally gave way, and the result was immediate: a vertical drop into 6371.
That break didn’t just hand control to sellers — it turned 6461 into a magnet, pulling price back into it again and again.
By Wednesday, Sept 3, ES had already back-tested the shelf four separate times from below, each producing reaction.
The Sept 3 Gameplan called 6457–6460 the “CRA rejection shelf,” and the mid-day update locked it in with the short.
Here’s that short Trade Review
That trade worked to perfection, pressing directly into the 6420 band before rebasing at 6371.
Thursday morning gave the cleanest sequence of all: a flush to 6456, immediate reclaim of 6461, and vertical squeeze higher.
As I noted heading into Sept 4, this was “structure at the crossroads” — buyers defending shelves, sellers leaning on rejections, and 6460 sitting dead center of the fight.
We moved definitively to 6540.
Then Friday Sept 5 we saw ES reinforced 6460 yet again
NFP drove an early flush.
6510, 6485, 6460.
All trades taken. (All outlined here).
The end result?
ES pushed nine points under 6461, followed by a sharp reclaim and squeeze.
Later that morning, the shelf was tested exact for an 18-point bounce, then undercut Friday’s 6456 low to 6452 before recovering into yet another Failed Breakdown.
In one session alone, 6460 produced multiple trap trades — a machine for disciplined execution.
Heading into the new week, the framework remains simple: buyers control above 6461, and sellers only gain traction if the shelf fails cleanly without reclaim.
One level, tested and retested, has shaped every major move for the past five sessions — and until it’s fully exhausted, it will continue to anchor the structure going forward.
Let’s dive into where that brings us Monday morning Sept 8, and where the Opportunities are
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