Power Hour Update for Subscribers
Final Hour Showdown After a Fakeout Open
📢 Power Hour Update for Subscribers – Final Hour Showdown After a Fakeout Open
📊 Power Pivots:
$ES: 5908
$NQ: 21355
🧭 Market Recap – Strong Start, Fast Failure, and Now Decision Time
The market opened strong, but as we’ve warned countless times…
❝ It’s not how it opens. It’s how it closes. ❞
$ES tagged the 5953 trap level and reversed hard.
$NQ pushed into 21670s, which we marked as a key resistance — also rejected sharply.
Since then:
Price dropped beneath 5903 and 21300, confirming that early buying was initiative failure.
Sellers defended the levels perfectly, and we saw lower lows, even as the pace slowed into Power Hour.
$ES tapped the 5884 level, held, and bounced weakly.
$NQ found footing around 21300, but hasn't reclaimed strength yet.
📌 Key Power Hour Zones
🎯 Magnets:
$ES → 5925–5930
$NQ → 21405–21420
These are sticky zones where price wants to rebalance before committing.
📉 Downside Danger Zones:
A daily close below 5895 and 21405 = momentum likely spills over into tomorrow’s open
This would confirm today’s rally attempt was just a trap before continuation lower
📈 Bullish Validation Levels:
Close above 5932 = structure still bullish
Would likely mean today was just a pullback in trend, and tomorrow can see follow-through rally toward 5982 and 6030
🔍 What Is the Market Attempting to Do?
Today was about probing higher to see if buyers could break and hold past key resistance. They failed.
So now the question is:
Can sellers confirm the reversal with a close below 5895 and 21405?
Or do we bounce and neutralize the trap with a reclaim above 5932?
🧠 Trader’s Education – “Fakeout and Follow-through”
The best moves often start with deception:
Lure in late buyers
Run the stops
Reverse hard into imbalance
We saw that today. The open strength was not confirmed by structure. It lacked participation. When key resistance hit, big sellers stepped in with intent.
🧩 Final Power Hour Scenarios
Hold Below 5895 / 21405
→ Signals risk-off close
→ Momentum into overnight likely bearishReclaim 5925 / 21420
→ Suggests absorption is complete
→ Possible grind back to 5953 / 21670 tomorrowSharp Squeeze Into Close Above 5932
→ Trapped shorts fuel rally
→ Expect upside extension toward 5982 / 22000 next session
🎯 Final Thought: Watch Who Controls the Close
This last hour tells us whether today’s reversal sticks — or if it was just noise inside a larger uptrend.
Let the auction show its hand. Trade accordingly.
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