27 March 2026 - ES & SPY

Yesterday's primary scenario materialized with precision and target 1 was met.

27 March 2026 - ES & SPY

Yesterday's Review

Yesterday's primary scenario materialized with precision and target 1 was met.

Current Regime

The bias remains clearly short, but recent order flow indicates that sellers are shorter-term participants, which opens the room for aggressive intraday stop runs. For traders, this translates to the need for confirmation at sell levels.

Levels

ESM26 SPY
Sell levels
6573 - 6576 | 6623 - 6632 | 6690 - 6700
Bearish refs
6543
Pivotal refs
6606

Scenarios

Scenario 1 — Bearish

The main short trade idea remains, and is accessed by the sell levels. Intraday focus is on the 6575 sell level, which is the foundation of a short/mid-term move lower.

Targets: 6540 | 6496 | 6400 | SPY 654.00 | 649.60 | 640.00

Scenario 2 — Intraday Rotational

Failure of the lower sell level to offer resistance, puts the market in a choppy / rotational environment in the 6600- 6650 zone. More of a scalping environment, than position trading. Still mid/long-term the bias would remain bearish under 6700.

Scenario 3 — Bullish

News or lack of persistent sellers may send the market to the upper sell zone, and acceptance above 6700 is a new bullish regime.

Targets: 6857 | 6950 | SPY 685.70 | 695.00

Important Notes

Execution — Sell and buy levels are not automatic entries. Traders must use their own short-term tools — orderflow, technical indicators, or otherwise — to confirm and time execution. If at the time of reading the market is trading above a sell level, that level's bearish bias is void, and vice versa.

Level Integrity — Levels are invalidated by acceptance beyond them, not a few ticks through. A wick through a level that reverses is rejection, not invalidation.

Timing — This note is prepared pre-market. Intraday developments may alter the relevance of any scenario.

Definitions

Price acceptance — Price spends significant time and generates high volume above or below a level, establishing a market consensus that it is a fair trade location.

Price rejection — Price fails to spend significant time or generate high volume at a level, showing a lack of market consensus that it is a fair trade location.

Rotational market — Price oscillates within the range of an accepted value area regardless of timeframe or extent, effectively rejecting trade outside that range to maintain the established consensus.

Buy/Sell levels — Price ranges where increased participation is expected and risk/reward is maximised, provided the level maintains its integrity.

Bullish/Bearish refs — References expected to provide buy/sell side action, without being important enough to support a regime.

Targets — Price levels representing the partial or full conclusion of a move, where profit-taking may trigger a counter-reaction without being treated as an expected trend reversal location.

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