15 traders on the wall this week – Hormuz sealed, Brent at $100, 2026 lows hit Thursday – the crew didn’t blink
Andy D took a painful Thursday, came back Friday with 4 near-perfect trades and let them all ride
Duncan G went 6 from 6 on Friday the 13th and graciously credited the right person
Rodger L Wall of Wins debut: best week ever, Lazy Popper only, no further explanation required
Friday the 13th delivered early – Brent above $100, 2026 lows hit Thursday, bears back in full control of both SPX and RUT
VIX held the range highs all week – that was the signal that the mid-week recovery wasn’t going to stick
PCE drops at 08:30 ET today – headline 2.7% expected, core near 3%, Fed meets March 17-18, Goldman now says September for the first cut
BTC breaking out of its range on the hourly – 6MMPs pattern #5 in play, targets marked, grinding sideways overall but the setup is there
25 trades across 5 days – 21 wins, 4 losses – profitable every single day including Friday the 13th
Winning ROC held between 61.5% and 90% across a crisis open, a fast day, a clean sweep, a grind, and an unlucky date
Thursday’s RUT paid 64-65% ROC on $2 and $6 index moves – the underlying barely moved and it didn’t need to
One VWAP trade got stopped by a penny at -93.5% – the next trade paid 90% – Friday added 3 more wins to close the week
IEA dropped 400 million barrels – biggest emergency release in history – Goldman immediately said it can’t close the gap – Iran said $200/barrel
Higher low or dead cat bounce – the broken record plays again – what matters is the hard right edge, not the hindsight view
6 trades, 6 wins yesterday despite a scrappy session – most closed in the live sessions Monday and Wednesday
WTI back above $90 after crashing to $77 Tuesday on a deleted Navy escort post – this market is being moved by tweets and deletions
Oracle up 11% after hours – revenue +22%, cloud +44%, RPO +325% – first time in 15 years both organic revenue and EPS grew above 20% in a single quarter – bears duly noted
CPI at 8:30 ET this morning – 2.5% YoY expected, pre-conflict data, the oil surge doesn’t register until March prints
Range trading view: breakout, retest of range middle, early bears stopped out, price heading back out – Phil staying bearish on the swings
Yesterday’s poppers: 6 trades, 5 wins, 1 loss – the day trades continue to not care about the macro debate
Mark Steffens entered his first ever live SPX trade at 1.00, cold sweat, scaled target to 0.40, closed it – “Will keep grinding”
Irina Csont went 6 from 6 in a single session – ORBs and T&Ts on SPX and RUT – full house
Andy D. logged a 160% loss and came back in the same morning with 3 wins including 97% ROC – that’s process over outcome in one session
Chris Taylor used AI to analyse his trade log from November to February – ORB30 confirmed sweet spot, average return +$15.38