Okay so I have a running joke with my members that I don't like trading oil. The reason is that oil barely cares what the chart says. You can find a gorgeous technical setup, feel great about it, and then wake up to some geopolitical thing that sends the whole sector one way or the other and none of your levels matter anymore. So I mostly leave it alone. Except this one keeps getting requested, it's trending, and when I finally pulled it up I understood why. Bull flag after bull flag going back months, and volume kicking in hard on the most recent breakout, which tells me buyers want it at these prices. And then I saw the pattern that gets me excited, which also happens to be the one most people read completely backwards. I walked through the whole setup in a video. Where the measured move lands,

Okay so I passed on a breakout today and I want to tell you why. Everything about it looked right. Price broke over the level I had marked, it lined up perfectly with the 40-period moving average, and if you'd shown me that chart cold I would have said take it. I said out loud that it was high risk instead. About ten minutes later it dumped, and the whole thing failed. I wasn't being clever. There was one specific thing about that setup that made me nervous, and once I explain it you're going to see it everywhere, on every chart, on whatever timeframe you trade. It's the difference between catching a move and paying for one that already happened. So we were flagging on SPY, which just means price ran and then went sideways in a tight little range while everybody caught their breath, which is textbook continuation

I was going through the QQQ this afternoon and I found something I had not even noticed. There are two gaps sitting on that chart right now. One above us and one below us, and neither one has been filled. Which matters this week specifically, because we have three scheduled events that can move this market hard enough to fill either one. PMI tomorrow morning, ADP on Wednesday before the bell, and the employment report Friday. And the 10-year just broke out completely. Rates are running and the market is not down anywhere near as much as it should be. Something has to give there. Below I will show you both gaps and the exact levels, plus how to find these on any chart you own. Because once you can spot a gap, you know where price is going to travel to before it starts moving. Not the direction, but