The Moneymaker

Pinball wizard trading

Julia Cordova✨ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:10:05 GMT

In after hours yesterday we saw the higher weekly R of 7216.50 tested and rejected. So far this morning the last hourly pennant/flag S has been backtested and held. I have placed the key lower at the center of that consolidation 7136.50 bc if that doesn't hold I think we see 7100.50 tested. $GC 4hr S 4584.0. $SI underneath daily 74.065 - watch pit close…

Hourly coiling across this week's big level

Julia Cordova✨ — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:22:31 GMT

So far we see just some light diamond-esque consolidation for the indices with last week's laggard, $RTY showing the most relative strength early morning. Preopen $ES is right on the 7190.50 weekly key (equivalent of last week's 7183 big deal), so that is key for today. Weekly overhead R 7216.50. On any decline $ES 7160 support and hourly pennant breako…

Trade Plan for 4/27-5/1

Julia Cordova✨ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:12:24 GMT

Last week I traded the consolidation levels as the rally from the bottom had very little substantial consolidation or pullback (barring the gap downs on the opens). I believed $ES/SPX futures 7183.00 to be major weekly resistance and 7091.50 to be the next weekly support:

You can see in the commentary I pasted into the chart that above any 7183 breakout I was looking for another daily close higher to confirm that breakout. I blacked out that level mostly because it is different this week. On Friday price finally broke over 7183, but it has NOT yet confirmed the breakout (for me). I find that any major breakout confirmation on a Friday is not the most reliable signal anyway, so I can’t wait to see price action against my levels this week. 👀

I was neutral from a bias perspective for precious metals last week. They closed red, but they really spent the whole week in consolidation just like $ES/SPX futures and $RTY/small caps futures.

Last week I shared in the front part of this note that $CL/Crude futures had done just enough to not be ‘dead’ yet ✅ and we saw it rise along with $NQ/Nasdaq futures last week. Sooo is that the new normal, or is one or both of them lying? I share my levels to trade either way.

Summary of Market Action Last Week:

· The indices spent a solid week in consolidation after a tremendous rally in the week prior. $NQ/Nasdaq futures was the clear relative strength winner despite $TSLA earnings that resulted in a decline for the stock.

· $GDX/gold miners lost ground on weak performance for the precious metals.

· $XOP/oil equities rebounded after 2 down weeks, as $CL/Crude Oil futures gained on the week with an inside candle.

Here’s how last week closed out:

For the week ahead (4/27 – 5/1/26)

Hourly breakout and weekly resistance

Julia Cordova✨ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:20:53 GMT

$ES held the center of the hourly consolidation overnight and it's broken out (hourly) over 7160.00, but I've assigned the key for today higher at the 7183.00 weekly top of consolidation level. $NQ is broken out while over the hourly trend line labeled 27059.50 and descending each hour. $GC 4hr support 4683.2. $SI 4hr S 74.61/ daily 73.445. $CL 93.62 S/…

Big move cometh

Julia Cordova✨ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:24:43 GMT

Yesterday $ES continued consolidating inside of the hourly triangle drawn, so a big move could be set up for today. Watch 7160.00 as key again. $NQ broke out of 26884.75 and the mm of 26962.25, so both are important to watch. $GC 4752.0, SI 75.22 4hr S, 73.135 daily S. $CL 93.62/97.57 R.

Ready, Aim, Fire

Julia Cordova✨ — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:20:18 GMT

After a clean rejection of the intraweek key yesterday, we saw a backtest of the next weekly level, which I said would still be 'healthy' and then a bounce from that 7091.50. $ES appears to be in a large hourly bull pennant. Today the key is 7160. Watch weekly levels above. Underneath 7091.50 would be a short. $NQ looks like a large ascending triangle c…

BIG level. HUGE

Julia Cordova✨ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:07:34 GMT

So far this morning we have a rejection from the intraweek key of $ES 7183.00. There is one more weekly level above close by at 7208.25 and a backtest of the weekly 7091.50 would still be considered 'healthy,' For $NQ watch mm 26962.25 R and daily support of 26534.75. $GC 4hr 4803.4 is key - it's still holding the 4hr flag over 4752.0. 4841.0R. $SI 80.3…

Is this time different?

Julia Cordova✨ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:19:59 GMT

Indices opened with a gap down for the 9th(!) week in a row and I've drawn in potential hourly bearflag channels that I believe we can use a price action gauges today. These will change each hour and be updated within Discord. I have set the key for $ES higher at the weekly breakout level equivalent to my short on Friday : 7183.00 and I've put the $NQ k…

Trade Plan for 4/20-4/24

Julia Cordova✨ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:29:29 GMT

To start last week $RTY/small caps futures had already broken out, $NQ/Nasdaq futures was right on the verge of a breakout, and $ES/SPX futures was sitting underneath its breakout level. As of end of day Monday, both $ES and $NQ had major breakouts.

I also indicated in the weekly note that I would consider reopening my $NFLX short after an impressive 40%+ move down after my last $NFLX short.

During the last 10 minutes of the day on Thursday I decided to enter a ½ position short $NFLX live on my Discord stream.

$CL/Crude futures had “fakey breaky-ed” in the previous week, so the continued move down was not surprising. HOWEVER, it closed just above where it needed to for it not to be ‘dead’ yet.

Precious metals have been right on target with movement in the bigger picture. ✅

Summary of Market Action Last Week:

· The indices gapped down to start the week once again, but that was the low for the week, and after major breakouts on Monday the indices rose each day. $NQ/Nasdaq futures lead the rally edging out $RTY/small caps futures for the second week in a row.

· $GDX/gold miners booked a gain amidst precious metals advancing, but underperformed after leading for three weeks in a row.

· $XOP/oil equities declined once again as $CL/Crude Oil futures continued to reverse the breakout.

Here’s how last week closed out:

For the week ahead (4/20 – 4/24/26)

OPEX after a record week plan

Julia Cordova✨ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:31:22 GMT

Yesterday indices just kind of stalled after breaking out. $ES Key for today is 7080.00 weekly, which is yesterday's break out level, and has measured move R of 7160 with weekly R 7169.50. $NQ key 26486 (daily), MM 26962.25 R (hourly). Silver technically broke back into daily channel yesterday, but gold and silver were both bull flagging on 4hr and it l…

Thursday Plan

Julia Cordova✨ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:33:49 GMT

Yesterday we saw yet another breakout and today starts just under another resistance. Both $ES and $NQ are making hourly bullflags so watch for a breakout/breakdown on hourly closes. Keys for today are $ES 7080.00 weekly and $NQ 26463.75 daily resistances. $GC bullflag on 4hr, closes maintaining 4841.0 breakout 4792.4 S. $SI > 79.425 daily channel break…

Are we there yet?

Julia Cordova✨ — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:15:12 GMT

The breakouts kept breaking upwards yesterday with $ES now directly as daily R 7019-7028.75 as key today. Weekly 7080 is strong R above. $NQ daily mm 25939.25 is key today with overhead weekly 26210.00 as strong R. $SI got the daily breakout yesterday so today 79.110 is the level that needs to continue to hold. $CL looks bearflag on hourly. Watch 91.16 …

Yuge breakout yesterday - now what. Silver on verge of daily breakout

Julia Cordova✨ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:36:29 GMT

Quite the breakouts for both $ES and $NQ yesterday with both closing above their respective keys. The $ES 6884.00 weekly is key for today. Overhead R daily 7015.25-7025.25. $NQ daily 25532.75 is key as that is the last breakout there. R 25714.25, 25939.25. $GC 4780.7 4hr S, 4841 4hr R. SILVER could break out of the daily bearflag channel today to the up…

3 important levels $ES/$NQ

Julia Cordova✨ — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:21:55 GMT

Indices gapped down last night to the weekly supports under last week's close and so far the gap and those supports have been bought. For today 3 big levels to watch for $ES: 6781.25 S (where opened), 6839.50 daily, 6884.00 weekly R (big breakout above). $NQ 24965.75S (where opened), 25151.75 weekly, 25256.50 (big breakout above). $GC 4752.8 4hr, 4774.5…

Trade Plan for 4/13-4/17

Julia Cordova✨ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:05:33 GMT

Last week I was skeptical that we had seen ‘THE’ bottom, but as always I gave important levels to hold/not hold and my levels performed very well.

I remained neutral/optimistic about precious metals as I felt they generally chop out for the week.

For me, $CL/Crude futures had closed the previous week above a very important level, so I thought we’d see upside, but that level was lost last week. So now… was that a fakey breaky or do we see yet another major reversal? It’s all about that same level.

Summary of Market Action Last Week:

· The indices gapped down once again, but $ES/SPX futures held ‘major support’ and rallied into resistance as of Friday. $NQ/Nasdaq futures lead the rally edging out $RTY/small caps futures.

· Precious metals held support and closed green. $GDX/gold miners outperformed for the third week in a row.

· $XOP/oil equities declined once again as $CL/Crude Oil futures reversed a breakout.

Here’s how last week closed out:

For the week ahead (4/13 – 4/17/26)

Friday breakout or fakeout

Julia Cordova✨ — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:40:50 GMT

For the close of the week both $ES and $NQ are very close to major weekly breakout levels so I have assigned those levels as the intraday keys: 6894.50 & 25308.50. Note hourly and daily gaps above in the event of a breakout. $GC looks to be in 4hr triangle close to a breakout. $SI still in upward (bearflag) channel on the daily 78.12R/70.23S. $CL still …

Thursday Plan

Julia Cordova✨ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:46:24 GMT

Yesterday $ES, $NQ and $SI all rejected the daily resistances (and keys) they opened near. $ES did hold the next weekly support of 6789.50 and that is key for today. For $NQ I've assigned the key higher at 25095.75, but watch April level of 24965.75 as equivalent $ES support. $SI channel levels 77.850R, 69.925S daily. $CL daily channel support 95.46

Big …

Truce juice

Julia Cordova✨ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:35:48 GMT

$ES (which held 6578 'strong support' yesterday) and $NQ start the day at daily resistance: 6839.50 and 25254.00 which are the respective keys for today. $ES would be a major weekly breakout > 6894.50. > $NQ 25308.50 would be major breakout. $GC 4hr R 4841. $SI also at daily R (top of daily bear flag channel) 77.525 - watch pit close. $CL daily breakdow…

MAGAphoning it in ahead of tonight's deadline

Julia Cordova✨ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:52:40 GMT

After a 'hot potato' chop day yesterday I see an hourly expanding consolidation for $ES. Same key as yesterday: 6624.75. Hourly close back over 6654.25 will likely trigger a move to 6688.50 which aligns with the 200 DMA. 6578 is strong support. For $NQ 24109.50-24166.50 (weeklies with a daily inbetween) is key. 24380.25 R. $GC/$SI just chop in place sti…

Hot Potato Day

Julia Cordova✨ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:38:47 GMT

$ES just above weekly 6624.75 to start the day and that level is key. 6654.25R & 6578.00S also to watch. $NQ 24109.50-24166.50 key. 24380.25 weekly R & 23880.00 daily S. $GC chop 4hr levels: 4644.4 - 4683.2 - 4752.8. $SI daily channel levels 69.075 - 76.925. $CL 111.11 big deal daily S 110.50

Big pic charts are pasted into Discord chat for your reference.