Week ahead

3/30 Week Ahead Plan

Published Saturday 28 March 2026, before the week opened. Kept exactly as written.

Ticker

/ES

Bias

Bearish (Sell Strength, Not Weakness)

Theme

Relief Rally → Lower High → Continuation

🧭 Market Context (Big Picture)

5 straight weeks of lower highs + lower lows

Clean break of 200DMA (~6605 ES / ~686 SPY)

Shift confirmed: From Buy the Dip → Fade the Rip

Macro pressure:Oil ripping (inflation risk)

Rates elevated

Risk assets losing momentum

👉 This is not a panic selloff…

👉 This is controlled distribution

🧠 What This Means (Your Edge)

Market is not in trend acceleration yet

It is in pullback → continuation phase

📊 Key Levels (Clean ES ↔ SPY Map)

🟥 Resistance (Where Shorts Live)

ES vs SPY

6605 200DMA (line in sand) ~654.7

6580 VAH / breakdown retest ~652.2

6640–6650 Stretch LH zone ~658.2–659.2

🟩 Support (Where Reactions Happen)

ES vs SPY

6523–6525 Recent LL ~646.5–646.7

6475 Major support / collar ~641.7

6405–6360 Expansion targets ~634.7–630.2

🔴Primary Trade — Lower High Short (Money Maker)

Market bounces → traps buyers → resumes downtrend

📍 Location

⚡ Trigger (RAIN)

R: Break below intraday structure AFTER bounce stalls

A: Acceptance back below 6580

I: Sellers step in (momentum shift / heavy tape)

N: Continuation lower

🎯 Targets

6525

6475

Runner → 6400

🛑 Invalidation

Sustained trade above 6615–6620

🟢 Counter Trade — LBAF Bounce (Use Carefully)

Short-term squeeze from oversold conditions

📍 Location

6475 → 6525 zone

⚡ Trigger

Sweep of lows → reclaim (LBAF)

Strong reaction (not slow grind)

🎯 Targets

6530

6580

🛑 Invalidation

Acceptance below 6470

👉 This is NOT the main trade

👉 This is fuel for the short setup

Breakdown Trade (Only If Market Accelerates)

Support fails → trend expands

📍 Trigger

Clean break below 6475

No reclaim (no LBAF)

🎯 Targets

6405

6360

👉 Only take this if:

Market is moving fast + clean

Not chop

🧩 RAIN Framework

1️⃣ Directional Close

1H confirms level (not wicks)

2️⃣ Reaction Quality

Fast rejection = real

Slow drift = chop

3️⃣ VWAP Alignment

Shorts BELOW VWAP

Longs ABOVE VWAP

4️⃣ Location > Everything

Extremes only

Never mid-range

🚫 Your Biggest Risk This Week

❌ Chop Zone: 6530 – 6580

This is where:

You overtrade

You convince yourself something is happening

Nothing is happening

👉 If you're trading here, you're guessing.

🧠 Simple Version (What You Actually Do)

👉 Wait for price to push into 6580–6605

👉 Watch for failure

👉 Execute RAIN short

👉 Sit on hands everywhere else

What this is, and what it is not

A week-ahead map, not a session plan. It has no single trigger, target and invalidation, so it is never scored the way the daily plans are, and it is not counted in the plan archive's numbers. It is kept because the way the thinking changed over the year is worth reading.