Help & method

Start here, then read the sessions.

Newest first. Method articles explain the card and the rules; Case studies are real sessions, bar by bar, with the footprint screenshots — each one is where a rule on the card came from.

Core ruleNov 1 · 12 min

Location First

Which side to trade from where price opened against yesterday's value, what to wait for when price reaches a level (hold, break, or nothing yet), and why a broken floor becomes a ceiling — with the week's examples.

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ReferenceOct 31 · 5 min

Glossary

VPOC, value area, naked level, stack, ledge, last buyer, CVD, MGI, the referee — every term the card uses, in one or two plain sentences each.

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Start hereOct 31 · 10 min

Reading the Card

Every section of the daily plan, top to bottom: the plain-words box, the MGI score, the starred level map, the four setups and the checks — what each line means and what to do with it.

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Core ruleOct 31 · 12 min

The Three Questions

Where is the print, did price make progress, did the other side answer. Why delta tells you who was aggressive and the next bar tells you who won — with the last buyer, the bottom rule and the pre-arm.

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Oct 30 2026Oct 31 · 9 min

Trend Day — the Five Tells

Five things knowable by 9:28 that separate a rotation day from a 110-point slide, how the card scores them, and why every bounce on a trend day fails the same way.

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Quick referenceOct 22 · 4 min

Box Confirmations

Schematic footprint bars for the four setups off an overnight box — A, B, C and D — what the confirming bar looks like and what kills each one.

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ReferenceOct 19 · 25 min

ES Profile Playbook

Supply and demand zones, single prints, Market Profile vocabulary, the delta rules, the Oct 18–19 case study, the dated rules and the NinjaTrader TPO setup.

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A reading order

Reading the Card → The Three Questions → Reading the Big Print → Trend Day — the Five Tells → Trend-Day Bounces. After that, the case studies in date order; each one adds a rule you will then recognise on the next morning's card.