Summary:

– Pre-market the trader expected a retrace into a daily volume imbalance and aimed for price to run up into the lower portion of that zone (orange box) before any meaningful short.
– Key structural cues: bullish inversion fair value gap(s), a bullish fair value gap, and a wick acting as a price boundary/inefficiency target.
– Plan: wait for a run-up to clear a specific high and trade into the orange area, then take action; layered entries/limits were used.
– Execution and management: sold partials (e.g., 15 contracts, left 5 as runners out of a 20-lot), staggered limit orders, and moved stops up to the low of the daily volume imbalance to lock profits.
– Outcome: received partial fills, peeled profits near the 555–560 vicinity, and was satisfied with the result.
– Teaching point: the trader favors a simple, visual OHLC-based model (high-probability market structure) over order-level data or complex indicators.