Trapped Buyers, One Retest
This is the written companion to a live Asia session trade, called and traded in real time by Saint. It starts before the entry: a balance he'd marked the day before gets pulled back up and corrected until it actually fits price, because an order flow read is only as good as the level underneath it. From there, three independent signals line up before a single contract goes out: a daily Delta print read as trapped buyers rather than strength, two separate New York sessions failing to break the same level hours apart, and an intraday breakout confirmed by a retest rather than chased on the break itself.
The document also covers a sizing decision most write-ups skip: Asia sessions can run 150 to 160 points past a normal target, and he chose not to hold for it, taking a simpler take profit that didn't depend on above average movement showing up. The trade closed at $501.50, and the document shows the fill read directly off the execution panel, not off the spoken number, since Whisper's transcription of the clip garbled the real figure into something unrelated.
Inside the PDF
- The thesis before the bell: a balance readjusted overnight, price at the edge of it
- Reading trapped buyers on the Delta: why heavy buying into a high can be the reason price turns
- Twice failed to break higher: what New York's AM and PM sessions were already saying
- The intraday levels, and waiting for the retest instead of chasing the breakout
- The entry: short, off a level that had already been defended once
- Why the target stayed inside Asia's normal range on purpose
- Reading the footprint and DOM into the fill
- The result: $501.50, and what "to the tick" actually means here
- What made it a clean trade: the confluence checklist
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