Day started with a strong bull bar, and bar 2 was a good follow-through bar, but it was closing right at the EMA on the 1H chart. We also had a big overnight gap to the downside. I did not trust the bull here, and the 1H chart was showing a clean bear trend.

On bar 5 we got a bearish reversal bar and bar 6 was decent follow-through, so I entered short. I took +10 pts. on the first contract. Price started to stall at the 60M EMA so I took the 2nd off at BE.

On bar 9 we got sharp rejection at the high and I really thought that would trap the bulls. All morning it looked like the bulls would get trapped, but the market reversed back up and I had to scale in on bar 16 and got out at BE on bar 18.

This was a very untrustworthy structure—trading range price action with weak bulls. It really felt like the bulls were struggling to get higher, so I was expecting a reversal, but at the same time bulls were slowly chopping higher. Very hard to trade.

The market kept slowly grinding higher. Slow grinding trends are the absolute worst to trade for me. It really should be easy since we are just moving up slowly, but the lack of good signal bars, the slow movement, small bars, and being far from the EMA just makes this very hard for me to enter and hold trades. It constantly feels like the market is stalling and about to pull back.
The slow grinding bull trend evolved into a very small range and it was hardly moving—just totally untradeable for me.

I was trying hard to get some trades today so I could pass my two last Tradeify evals, but there were so few opportunities for me. So when we got a BOPB on bar 75 of the small tight range I took a chance, and I got the points I needed to pass one of them.

Bar 77 was a huge bullish bar and very climactic. When bar 78 printed it looked like the bears took control, so I entered short and got the points I needed to pass the last eval too. That last trade I am not proud of and I will not mark it.