The first 3 bars were stacked side by side, indicating we could get a trading range structure. We did have an overnight gap to the low side, but overall bias on the HTF was bullish.

When bar 4 showed strong momentum and was about to close strong bullish, I entered long. We were breaking out of yesterday’s high and I was looking to get at least to the Globex high. That target was about 1R (+10 pts.). The first contract I took off at 0.5R (+5 pts.). Price did in fact stall for a long time at the Globex high.

After a long time stacking up around the Globex high, we got a great bull breakout bar and a follow-through bar closing above all the previous bars and the Globex high, so I took the long. I was aiming for +5 pts. on the first contract, and had the measured move of the bull leg as the 2nd. But when price stalled I took it off at +5 pts. too.

After this price crawled slowly up towards the measured move, but could not quite get it. The read was pretty good here even though I cut it short.

Around the measured move, bulls lost momentum and stalled. Then we got indications that bulls were losing momentum and we got a bear leg down, going below the EMA. So when we got a LH / breakout pullback of the small range I entered short, expecting a MTR. After I entered it stalled a lot with stacked bars.

We finally broke down and I took 1 contract off at 0.5R (+4.50 pts.). It lost momentum again so I took off the 2nd at +5 pts., and I took my dinner break that was overdue.
When I got back, bulls had tried to push back above the EMA, and when we got a H1 Buy I took a risky long. We had a double top that scared me, so when it started to stall I was quick to take it off at BE. I was thinking we could very well get another bear leg down and not necessarily get a new test of the highs.

Market was slowly crawling higher and it looked like a bear squeeze, but there was not really much room to the highs and that small range could easily get a FBO to the low side. So the only smart thing was to wait.

Market was just chopping around in a very tight range into the close, so I called it a bit early.