Issue 1,942 – Copyright, 2025, by Wyckoff AM Trader (New Version)
FROM THE DESK OF WYCKOFF TRADER (Read the Terminology at the bottom if you need clarification on WB-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
From yesterday 7/22
[5. Cycle Bias: 🏛️ 🐂 💲 Looking good, Louis! Trading at all-time highs. I'm seeing a tight float. Buying support was unable to gain a following at those highs some volume was coming in at the highs 11K at 10:30 am and 30K at 1:35 am but not pressing supply. Need to see price recover the 41 and the daily pivot 54 handle for the captain to turn off the no smoking lights.]
IF you used the clock you had a great day. Sure, we wanted price to go up but it had to go down before it could go back up. You can see on the spill up, bulls just did not have it in the tank. So they dropped it like it was hard. Perhaps it was the J Powell announcement or perhaps it was the Ozzy news. Not sure which one. Composite Man shook all the weak hands and held the bid to the tune of 78,300 contracts and then 17,800 later.
Wyckoff Trader
P.S.
Today is a big day, there are going to make some AI guidelines from the POTUS/WHITEHOUSE. I'm sure they got a URL for that…
Both of these are worth your time.
📜 Big picture perspective
⚔️ Geopolitical Tensions, 🏆 Trade Tensions and Tariff Deadlines, 🛢️ US Fiscal Health Concerns,
– Monthly: Now we have some breathing room from those highs. Bar all alone up in the sky. Let's give it a few days.
– Weekly: Putting some distance from the last two weeks high. Let's give it a few days.
– Daily: Price slowly pulled back and found support at the floor trader S2 pivot. Let's give it a few days.
I'm always amazed how traders have references. And sometimes price just goes to where it goes. However, the floor trader pivot reference was strong yesterday. Even stronger was the high of the last two weeks. This shows institutional influence. A tight float.
🕒 SERIES S3L 🕒
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| PREV CLOSE| N/A | 4:00 | N/A | 6341 | 70,500 | N/A | 95,315 |
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| OPEN | N/A | 9:30 | N/A | 6343 | 10,000 | N/A | 37,420 |
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| TURN | H/L | SEAL | BIAS | HNDLE | VOL | DELTA MIN | Wave Vol |
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| Spill | up | 9:40 | center | 6349 | 12,300 | (+06) 20m | + 16,568 |
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| AM | LOW | 10:00 | early | 6320 | 78,300 | (-29) 20m | -129,075 | Spine Low
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| MID AM | | |
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| lunch | high | 1:30 | center | 6350 | 9,500 | (+30) 210m | +424,232 |
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| mid pm | low | 2:20 | center | 6335 | 17,700 |(-15) 50m | – 85,683 |
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| LAST HOUR | high | 4:00 | late | 6353 | 77,000 | (+20)100m | +233,466 | Spine High
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PROSE AND THE NUMBAHS
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📜 Good morning. Today is SERIES S3L. Spine: strength confirmed 6353 down to lunch low 6320.
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🌒 🌍 After Hours Globex: – That's the dog (CASH) but what did the tail (PEONS) do? —WB
1. Tone Last Night: (Liquidity)
🦘🐂 Opens at the Cash close and bids price up to the 6364 handle and then dips back to the open.
🏮 🐂 Holding price in a 13 handle range to the Cash close.
🏛️ 🐂 And then the PEONS just kept price on the bid up to the 6372 handle. Just waiting to knock on the door. PEONS over their skies.
2. Large Size: 🦘🐟 (no tuna), 🏮🐟 (no tuna), 🏛️🐟 (1 tunas)
Absence of size = absence of conviction. Liquidity flow was skeletal designed to shape expectation, not execute dominance.
3. 7:00 AM / Premarket: 💲 (2 tunas) Nothing moving the needle after the 8:30 numbers.
4. News: – 📰 (Existing Home Sales & Atlanta Fed Business Inflation Expectations at 10:00, EIA Petroleum Status Report at 10:30. All time EST)
5. Cycle Bias: 🏛️ 🐂 💲 Looking good, Louis! Trading at all-time highs. I'm seeing a tight float. Shook out the weak hands yesterday; Same ole story. Globex has price up to the all time highs once again. No real supply is pressing down upon the market. Once again price is trading at R2 Pivot.
6. Honing (turns): Spill up, AM LOW, MID AM HIGH, lunch low, mid pm high, LAST LOW.
7. Previous Day's Numbers:
┌──────────────────────────── Session Summary ───────────────────────────┐
│ Weekly High 6357.00 Weekly Low 6241.00 │
│ Weekly Settle 6335.25 Final Settle 6344.75 (+9.50) │
│ Open 6348.00 Candle Body −3.25 Bearish │
│ High (15:59) 6353.75 Upper Wick +5.75 │
│ Low (09:55) 6318.75 Lower Wick −29.25 │
│ Session Range 35.00 Midpoint 6336.25 │
│ Volume 959,524 contracts Weekly Δ +104.75 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
8. Floor Trader Pivots:
🧱 Zones of Control Weekly Pivot (6279.00)
🔺 Bull Zone
– R2 (6365.75)
– R1 (6355.25)
⚖️ Decision Zone
– Pivot (6336.75)
🔻 Bear Zone
– S1 (6326.25)
– S2 (6307.75)
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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