Trade Plan for 3/30 - 4/3

Trading the dip that keeps getting dippier

Last week I believed that the indices must either go more down or sideways before going up. For the 5^th week in a row we saw a gap down on the open and the rally in the beginning of the week was sold. This time both $ES/SPX futures and $NQ/Nasdaq futures rejected what I has assigned as overall keys near perfectly overnight. For the beginning of the week I didn’t do too much as I believed the market would chop given that the large moves were being made overnight and that was accurate.✅ Still I scalped the chop ranges in both directions:

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I didn’t expect metals to necessarily go higher, but I did expect both $GC/gold futures and $SI/silver futures to hold my overall keys. $GC came so close (!), but alas failed holding it by a slight margin. $SI did hold where I expected it to.

I once again suggested trading $CL/Crude futures on a ‘level to level’ basis, and my levels worked well given the volatile candle and the 2 way price action.

Summary of Market Action Last Week:

· The indices gapped down for the 5^th week in a row on last Sunday’s open, and the opening rally was sold once again. $RTY/small caps futures held relative strength for the 2^nd week in a row and this time managed to squeak out a slight gain.

· $GC/Gold futures declined last week in volatile trading, but $SI/Silver futures held a nominal gain. $GDX/gold miners gapped up and held outperforming gains after being the worst equity performer for the third week in a row.

· $XOP/oil equities booked gains once again with $CL/Crude Oil futures also booking a gain for the week.

Here’s how last week closed out:

For the week ahead (3/23 – 3/27/26)