Ben

$NQ$ES 📈📉
Trading Futures & Selling Premium.
Time Based Liquidity, ORB/IB, FVG, VWAP, ODTE.
CSPs. Focus List. Market Posture. Velocity Scan.🚀

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

The tape's been choppy. Kids are back in school. So, I put the downtime to work.

Decades of reading market breadth & sentiment, finally built into a dashboard for Market Posture. It boils the tape down to one question... how much risk does the backdrop support?

How it works. 🧵

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

$DHT in oil & gas... forgot to include that one. Definitely fits the profile.

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I've pounded the table on this idea for over 2 decades now... when there's crossover with the same names between multiple different scans, those are often worth keeping a closer eye on. $NBIS $AXTI $LITE $SMTC $AYA $CRCL $OSCR recent examples. 💪

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

Velocity Scan for Friday, 9/18. Familiar names & expanded list, but friendly reminder OpEx tends to skew those "days to turn" float numbers. In line with nearly all else I've shared this weekend, it's a good start, but we need to see more. $AXTI $LITE $MXL $SMTC $FORM up top! 🚀

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🚨 Market Posture shift from DEFENSIVE 🛑 to CAUTIOUS ⚠️

Not out of the woods by any means, but it's a start! 👀

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Very helpful! 👇 👇 👇

[Phatinfantry Trading @Phatinfantry]

@PatternProfits Two options I know of. One People can post it to any AI pic capable, like Perplexity and just tell it to clean it up. That's the pic I posted below from yours. I can read it easily now. Second is to load it as an attachment as well. Something about the pixels or what not...

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

Does the light background + screenshot read any better? Claude and I are both out of ideas on how to get it to read easier on X. 🤷‍♂️

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Here's the base TOS screen, since I always get asked for it...

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Post-OpEx CSP scan NEVER disappoints! 💪

Base score: ROR, Spread, Liquidity, Technical cushion, Fundamentals, Delta
Overlay: RS Line vs MA, Rev/EPS Trends

$NBIS takes #1 -> tightest spread, deepest volume, losses narrowing fast.

Full rankings + Fundamentals overlay below. 👇

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

Every week I screen the entire market for institutional quality growth leaders.

Hard floors -> EPS +25%, revenue +25%, relative strength top 20%. No exceptions.

What survives gets ranked, earnings 1st. The strongest growth & price action in one list.

This week's Focus List.👇

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See what I mean... $NQ now 100+ handles off the AM low. 👀

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Time & price both play a role. Noon often offers a retrace of the AM move + 7683.50 Put Wall right there. Hang around for $ES PDL to capture 3 handles? No thanks. R/R makes no sense there.
Now, a non OpEx day with $NQ also taking out the IB low with $ES? Different story entirely.

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

Quick CSP OpEx sneak peek. We're at 43 midday. I told @shrederickson I wanted to see 50+. Well on our way. Remember, this doesn't fully update until tomorrow morning, so I won't likely have the full run + dashboard until then. Some familiar names... $NBIS $CRCL $SMTC $AYA $SNDK

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$NQ Noon Curve validated.

This is an extremely difficult week with the Fed + Rollover + OpEx. Forget about green. If one simply survived day trading futures, that's real progress. It does get easier than this.
If green on the week, congrats! Payday was well earned! 💪 HAGW all!

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$NQ $ES Noon update.

Claude incredibly slow today! Only $NQ Asia low left unmitigated. 😡

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

Time & price both play a role. Noon often offers a retrace of the AM move + 7683.50 Put Wall right there. Hang around for $ES PDL to capture 3 handles? No thanks. R/R makes no sense there.
Now, a non OpEx day with $NQ also taking out the IB low with $ES? Different story entirely.

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

"Mindful of SMT potential" = take it all off even though only the weaker contract delivered to target. Not wise to hang around! 👍

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$ES IB downside break. 🎯 Right on schedule. ⏰️
$NQ not quite yet. Mindful of SMT potential down here... they never make it easy on OpEx.

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$NQ $ES IB closes in the lower half with the highs printing 1st. 🔴

IB lows the low hanging fruit. $NQ also has Asia low unmitigated below. 👀

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$ES 30min ORB Checkpoint.

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$NQ IB checkpoint.
*The 1st FVG is there & red. Claude still having issues...

[Ben @PaternProfits_]

$NQ $ES IB closes in the lower half with the highs printing 1st. 🔴

IB lows the low hanging fruit. $NQ also has Asia low unmitigated below. 👀