Issue 1,965 – Copyright (c) 2025. All rights reserved. Keeping WB’s Clock Alive Since 2017.
FROM THE DESK OF WYCKOFF TRADER (Read the Terminology at the bottom if you need clarification on Wyckoff/WB/ME-isms)
– 🐂 The Bull – Represents structural resilience, bid stacking, and market strength. If liquidity holds, the bull carries the weight
– 🐻 The Bear – Symbolizes liquidity exhaustion, price vulnerability, and market weakness. If bids vanish, the bear drags the market down.
– 👻 “GHOST – If the market doesn't have breath, it will fall due to the
lack of structure under the pressure of constant changing of belief.” – Wyckoff Trader
THE LONG GAME (if you dare to read)
What I talking about in 2020; 2026/27, 2033, 2055
How about exotic energy—blue pellet—anti gravitvic? That might work but NUCLEAR? And this is the best and brightest can come up with? It's a good thing they are not tradesman, cause they be trying to use a hammer to remove a screw…
A hammer does not fit every situation and neither does NUCLEAR. I don't think the Glatic Federation of Light would allow them out in space with a nuclear reactor.
Albert E. once said something about solving a problem the same what you created it. What was it called? Insanity!
THE SHORT GAME (Myth → Meaning → Mechanics of the market)
— MYTH MIND WORM IN THE VALLEY —
AI supremacy is no longer optional—it's a global arms race, and the cost of falling behind is existential. Yes, and the market participants haven't really agreed to that now have they? The new Shiny Shiny is now—showing its Hiney!
— MEANING – HOW THIS EFFECTS THE STREET —
MAN (RISK ON): META, GOOG, AMZN, TSLA, HD | MACHINE (RISK ON): PLTR, NVDA, AVGO
— MECHANICS – (though the eyes of the Composite Man | WB | ME)
Yesterday: 🦅 AM Turn 0821 – Phase A Transition to B–C | SERIES S1H IFFY. | Spill odds down → loupie loop → LAST HOUR ODDS UP
As we dissected it in yesterday's AM TURN email Subject Header before market open Phase A Transition to B–C, the Composite Man probed the low 10:55 on 64,500 at 6365 of the prior day at 2:45 am just before the PEON open. This shook out all the weak hands and tested the low ending the Phase A campaign. Phase B starts at 3:00 am as price drifted back up. This forces the spill down to the open of 11K lots as price just kept lifting offers. The Composite Man checks the rally on 43,600 lots waiting for the Jackson Hole Tee off.
A 100th of a milli-second after 10:00 am price just lifts 43 points on 23,600 lots. And then 13.4 on 9 handles, 10,300 on 7 handles.
This "Scared Roach Dance" takes the Composite Mans Campaign up to a new whole level. From Phase B to C and up into D. Then pressing it into Phase E. All before a come up hither, blink of an eye moment! As the Composite Man sees shortening of the upward thrust price start to trail off on lower volume. This indicates an additional move to test those highs. 6490 on 7,300 indicates demand is weaking. The pull back to 10:25 am confirms it on 14,400 lots.
On the next dip down volume is considerably higher as the public has now entered in the fray. The Composite Man tests price again at higher high on 9,500 lots at the 6496 handle. The sets a potential new Phase A campaign. it's more about digesting the quick up move. He then dips price down to 1:00 pm on slightly increased volume of 9.400 lots to hold the 6475 handle. As he turns on the green light and encourages the Limings to hit the buy button, he starts to form a grin as the Retail tepid SLOG move up seals the deal 50 minutes later as 3,100 lots indicate the Composite man is unable to gain a following at these highs. Momentum is failing as he plays your a mean one Mr. Grinch… In the back of his mind.
Seeing this, the Composite Man starts up the Phase B Campaign. As the secondary test from the Selling Climax proves the bulls have extended their time, effort and resources. At least for the day and this ends the week. The day ends 10 points off the high to close at 77,300 6480 handle.
PROSE AND THE NUMBAHS
They say you can only make a decision based upon who you are; or after your decision—who you were. You have freedom to choose but you can only choose based upon who you are at your present—space time moment but you have total and absolute freedom to choose who you will become!
— Wyckoff Trader
Heraclitus. 🔥 “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” In our case the same trade.
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📜 Good morning. Today is SERIES S4H Normal.
🎛️ Tape Read: 🏛️🐂💲 "Looking good, Louis! Looking good!" – Bullish (high confidence) (overnight read) You might see price trading down retracing some of the gains from Friday.
🧭 Honing Turns: Spill down → AM HIGH → MID AM LOW → lunch high → mid pm low → LAST HOUR HIGH.
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Dates: 📅 August 9 Sturgeon Moon 3:55 a.m. Fall Solstice (Equinox) 📅 September 22 2:19 p.m. (all times Est)
********************* Terminology *********************
"Looking good, Louis! Looking good!" – Bullish (high confidence)
"Looking good, but…" – Neutral (cautious optimism)
"Things just got ugly, Louis. Very ugly." (Black Swan)
"It's looking real bad for the bulls, Louis. Real bad." – Bearish (pessimistic)
"It's looking real bad for the bears, Louis. Real bad." – Bullish (optimistic)
🐟 (Minnows)
⏳ Lifespan: 1–2 years
💧 Liquidity Impact: Momentary—tiny, rapid entries and exits
🔄 Interpretation: Their short biological life mirrors *fleeting market presence*. They appear as *blips* on the liquidity radar—numerous but not lasting.
🐟 (Sardines)
⏳ Lifespan: 3–4 years
💧 Liquidity Impact: Mid-range, directional waves
🔄 Interpretation: Like their lifespan, they sustain presence a bit longer—*waves of flow* with follow-through. Not permanent, but *tactically significant*.
🐟 (Tuna)
⏳ Lifespan: 15–40 years
💧 Liquidity Impact: Deep, anchoring, strategic
🔄 Interpretation: Their long biological endurance maps to *long-dwelling liquidity*. When they enter, they sit, influence, and stabilize. They're duration-defined presences**, just like their species.
🧖 "Dropping the Soap"
🏀 "Running with the ball"
👵 "momma got thrown from the train!"
📈 Up Turn – Higher highs and higher lows.
📉 Down Turn – Lower highs and lower lows.
↔️ Chop Turn – Bulls and Bears equally balanced.
💥 dropped it like it was hard (no bid stacking, no liquidity, hitting the bid)
🏀↓ smack it down or 🏀↑ bid it up (indicates a potential change in trend)
🧽 adding liquidity back into the market
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