SPY Levels & Game Plan

Friday, January 2, 2026

No Game Plan published for today. The levels were run though and can be seen in the "After the closing bell" screenshot below.

After the closing bell...

Trading by the Ticks & Trades Strategy, here is where you would have landed for the day:

After running the levels after the fact, the same way I run them each morning - using the available data up to about an hour before the market opens for whichever day I'm preparing for - there were three levels and one zone identified. Price didn't make it to the zone, which started at 687.14, but that area right below the zone acted as good resistance and pushed price down. The first official trade was a long position entered at 10:16 AM when price fell into 683.94. There was a bounce worth a Base Hit's amount of points (4 ES points), and then price got under that level. No Recycle Trade on the short side at that same level because of the timing of the retest - although it's easy to see retroactively that 683.94 did provide resistance for the rest of the day. Meanwhile, price fell into 681.59 and there was a picture-perfect long trade as price bounced from that level cleanly at 10:26 AM. No other trades at the levels for the day because of the way price interacted with the levels pursuant to the Ticks & Trades rules. No Recycle Trade at 681.59 on the short side, for example, because a Near Miss around 12:07 - 12:08 PM.

Per the rules, a total of 8 ES points for the day.

Tracking log to-date for 2026: