🔗 Key Links
🌀 Cycle Day Context
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Cycle Day 3 → bullish momentum carried over into today’s session.
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Overnight/Pre-RTH → Upside target zone 6535–6540 ✅ fulfilled.
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3-Day Cycle Targets → 6555 & 6563 hit by mid-morning, completing another textbook cycle sequence.
📷 Chart Capture:
📈 Morning Session Highlights
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PPI Surprise:
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Headline PPI: -0.1% MoM (exp. +0.3%)
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Core PPI: -0.1% MoM (exp. +0.3%)
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YoY: 2.6% vs. exp. 3.3%, Core 2.8% vs. exp. 3.5%
→ Inflation data cooler than expected, supporting equity upside.
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Manny’s Playbook:
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Break/Retest Long @ 6530 → triggered overnight, held 6532.
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Fib Clusters & Flows posted early:
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Breakout >6550 → Flow squeeze into 6560–6565 zone.
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🕛 Midday Action
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Initial Balance around 10:30 AM marked a Bear Shift from earlier bullish momentum.
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Gap Fill achieved into midday, confirming VWAP magnet effect.
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Traders noted algo precision with Fib clusters, 1-to-1 symmetry, and GEX positioning guiding intraday rotations.
📷 Soap Bar Humor – Bulls slipping:
🐂🐻 Afternoon Session
📷 Voodoo Cycle Target:
⚔️ Battlefield Recap
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Morning Charge: Bulls stormed targets with precision, fueled by soft PPI.
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Midday Counterstrike: Bears wrestled back control after IB, forcing a gap fill.
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Afternoon Grind: The battlefield shifted into balance as 3-Day cycle highs defined the top.
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Final Stand: Closing flows absorbed into VWAP — truce at day’s end.
✅ Summary:
Another Cycle Day 3 classic — upside targets achieved early, cycle highs respected, and afternoon balance reigned supreme. Bulls carried the morning, Bears countered midday, and the day closed in equilibrium.