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Hello, my friends!

📈 After last week’s shakeout, the Top Tech cohort is rebounding and risk appetite has swung back into Greed across broader markets.

🟢 Trend structures are re-asserting, but extension risk is rising.

Sentiment sets the playbook. It doesn’t predict turns on a clock - but it frames risk, execution style, and profit-taking discipline.

Practical thresholds & actions

While Greed starts to increase , these fresh impulses have been shaping U.S. and European flows:

• BoE’s Mann: Signals readiness for forceful policy action - including faster/larger rate cuts if domestic demand weakens.

• Scope Ratings on France: Says a government collapse is the most likely outcome - credit negative if realized.

• Fed Gov. Cook (legal): Counsel indicates intent to challenge termination via lawsuit.

Now let’s dive into the live options data tool I rely on to read sentiment - bullish or bearish - and align risk on intraday Nasdaq decisions.

The Gamma Compass: BlackBoxStocks

Here’s how I incorporated Blackbox Stocks’ Live Gamma Levels in today’s live session - applied directly from the SPY chart.

Updated in real time, these levels give me a clear blueprint for how to analyze risk, and where to avoid chop during my intraday execution.

Platform highlights

• 10 years in market (since September 2015)

• Launched the BlackBoxAcademy

• Real-time stocks, options, and dark-pool data

• Active BBS community led by team traders

I’m partnering with Blackbox Stocks to bring you proprietary features I use in my day-to-day analysis.

In the coming updates, I’ll show how these live levels can sharpen decision-making - so you’re not flying blind on candlesticks alone.

Qualified Account Update

This update covers one qualified account with Alpha Futures. The objective has been steady consistency - sizing derived from the daily average range (ATR) converted to dollars, with a fixed dollar risk per trade.

I take the same entry pattern every day; it often sets up 30 - 60 minutes after the NY open, but I’m comfortable waiting several hours if conditions aren’t aligned.

Here are some steps to protect your edge by avoiding the Overtrading Tax:

1) Expectancy Math

• Baseline edge: +0.20R/trade before costs

• 10 high-quality trades → 10×(0.20−0.05)=∗∗+1.5R∗∗10 × (0.20 − 0.05) = +1.5R10×(0.20−0.05)=∗∗+1.5R∗∗

• 30 mixed-quality trades (edge slips to +0.12R) → 30×(0.12−0.05)=∗∗+2.1R∗∗30 × (0.12 − 0.05) = +2.1R30×(0.12−0.05)=∗∗+2.1R∗∗ - but variance, drawdown, and rule-violation risk jump.
  More trades only help if quality and execution scale - they rarely do intraday.

2) “One-and-Done” / “Two-and-Through”

• Quota: Max 1–2 trades/day

• Quit if:

  • You’re green early → stop for the day

  • You hit −0.5× daily loss limit → stop (protect account)

  • You log two B-/C-grade signals in a row → stop (selection decay detected)

3) A/B/C setup governance 

• A+: All criteria met (time-of-day, structure, confluence, volatility)

• B+: One minor criterion missing → halve size

• C: No trade - log as “watch only”

  You cannot promote a B to A in real time; ratings are set before entry.

4) Prop-firm survival rails

• Soft brake: Pause at −50% of daily loss limit

• Hard stop: Flatten at −80% (never “max out”)

• Cooldown: 20-minute no-trade timer after any loss > 0.4R or any emotional spike

Process, not pace. The goal remains consistent execution - fixed risk and one repeatable entry!

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Disclosure: Partner offers. Trading futures involves risk; only trade with capital you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice.

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Until next time,
Steve B
Founder, The Daily Impulse

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