NQ Trading Seek & Destroy Profile Jackson Hole Symposium Day 1

Date: 2026-08-27

Macro-Timed Low Sweep

[00:01] All right, I’m looking for 29,443 even to be blown out.

We’re entering the middle of the 9:50 to 10:10 macro, so if I can get underneath there, I’ll try to get long using the candle immediately before the one we’re in right now.

If it stays like this, I just need a little bit more. Just a little bit more.

It needs to trade down there again. I can’t take it like this.

We’re right in the middle of the macro. The candle immediately preceding this one should become an Inversion Fair Value Gap.

All right, I’m looking at the premium wick just above me.

[01:44] I’m watching price action, but I don’t want to draw anything yet because we’re still close to that low. I don’t want to see price rip underneath that low again.

I also don’t want the midpoint of this candle to the left to show any meaningful sensitivity. I’m basically watching the wick’s Consequent Encroachment. If this candlestick can close above that level, I’m going to move the risk into positive territory so that, if I’m stopped out, I still walk away with something.

Seek and Destroy Objective

[02:35] What I’m trading here is Day 1 of the Jackson Hole Symposium. This is a Seek and Destroy Model, so I think they’re going to take the buy-side liquidity created at the intraday high.

There’s another high above that, which I’ll show you in a couple of minutes.

For now, I’m just watching to see whether we can get this **SIBI. **

No Volume Imbalance.

Now I want to see price stay in the upper half and, ideally, use only the high of it for discount sensitivity.

[03:24] In other words, treat it like a trampoline.

I needed price to close outside and above it like that.

Now let me get a close above the high of that Inversion Fair Value Gap, and that’ll— There you go.

All right, now I can bring the stop up to the low, right inside that Volume Imbalance.See that?

Three Supporting PD Arrays

[04:13] And I have the low of this Inversion Fair Value Gap, its Consequent Encroachment, and the Volume Imbalance—all three levels acting as my three PD Arrays supporting the trade.

All right, there’s another SIBI that I want to see behave as an Inversion Fair Value Gap.

Price is entering it now. Stay above. Stay above the wick’s Consequent Encroachment.

Close above it. Come on, close above it.

These are very tricky days—Seek and Destroy conditions. I don’t make a habit of trading them, but I had some goober tell me I’m hiding from the day.

[05:07] Oh, wait until you see what I’m going to do.

All right, let me map it out for you. I’m going to make this a little bigger because it’s too small.

I’m trading Day 1 of the Jackson Hole Symposium, and I’m aiming for that high.

It’s a Seek and Destroy profile, so this is what I’m looking for.

Okay, so that’s my intraday high for today, and that’s where the buy stops on shorts are resting. For now, that’s my terminus.

[06:32] It may evolve into a slightly higher high, but I want to see how price books here.

I’m watching the Consequent Encroachment of that wick. There are a lot of overlapping wicks in here, so let me show you the other SIBI that should behave as an Inversion Fair Value Gap. I’ve already marked its Consequent Encroachment.

Now we want to see price— There you go.

I was going to say, I want to see it get to the other side of it. Now I can bring my stop up to the low of the wick that I measured Consequent Encroachment from.

Wick Support and Invalidation

[07:13] Because if price goes below Consequent Encroachment at this point, I’m no longer interested.

I have several wicks and a down-close Order Block supporting the trade. Those are my three PD Arrays.

I don’t want to see a mohawk—in other words, a little movement below the Inversion Fair Value Gap we’re trading inside now.

Preferably, price stops right here and goes higher.

That’s exactly what I’m looking for.

I don’t want to sit through any prolonged period of time inside this small SIBI.

[09:33] You have no reason to be doing that here.

If price closes below that Consequent Encroachment, I’m going to have to wait for it to dig deeper into the upper half of that wick.

Well, now we’re going to see how good my stop-loss placement is, because it looks like that upper half of the wick really needs to come in and shine.

Keep the candle bodies inside the upper half of that wick.

Come on. Look at that. You can’t get much closer to that stop loss. Come on now. Give it up for ICT.

I think price is going to pull right up into that high—right there. That’s the next objective.

But for now, I’m focused on whether price is showing me a willingness to reach that high, and then the one above it.

Right there. Right there. Hold up. Bring it up. Come on. Sometimes you’ve got to coax it up there, folks.

Stay in the upper half right there. Let me draw it out for you. This is the discount array I’m watching—the upper half of the wick.

This one should be a large-range candle digging up into that level, so I’m going to put a limit order in there for four contracts.

[13:13] If price takes out this high, it’s definitely going to take out that one.

And I’m already smiling because I know it’s coming. I already know it’s there.

I just need this candle to become a large-range up-close candle. If I get that, then it’s all but guaranteed.

Managing the Buy-Side Imbalance

[14:00] Bring the stop up again.

Now the stop is below the Inversion Fair Value Gap because we’ve spent a lot of time with the candle bodies inside it.

At this point, we have the whole lay of the land right here.

I’m going to change this because it’s no longer the terminus. All right, so this will become the next partial. Now we just have to wait and see.

The buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency we just created should support price in its upper half. If price trades back down into it, that’s fine, but I’d prefer to see it remain partially unfilled.

[15:45] That’s actually a positive.

Ideally, price never trades back down into the gap at all. But you always have to allow for an Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill.

When the market is really, really bullish, you often won’t see half of the Fair Value Gap or imbalance filled. Instead, price may only make a small poke below the high of the gap and then continue higher.

This is the part of a Seek and Destroy trade that feels like it lasts forever. Price can still go down and take out the low of the day too—that’s simply the nature of this profile.

[16:35] It goes up and down, up and down, up and down, then suddenly makes a quick run for the other side.

That’s why I waited for the macro. I waited for that intraday low to be taken out, and then— Come on, get up here.

Once we got about halfway through the 9:50 to 10:10 macro, I started looking for the move. I don’t have the macro highlighted here because I’m focused on managing the trade. Come on, get up here.

Seek and Destroy conditions demand a lot of attention, which is exactly why I don’t think they’re something you should be trying to trade casually.

[17:22] Watching a Seek and Destroy profile is one thing, but actually executing on it is different. You need to know what you’re doing, otherwise it’s going to be very frustrating.

I want this buy-side imbalance to remain partially open and unfilled. We’ve already had the Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill, and I don’t want to see price trade any lower than the area we just dug into. So we’ll leave that imbalance open as it is.

[18:21] If price can hold like this, it’s going to go.

Yeah, it should rip from here and take out the intraday high. At this point, I’m not concerned about getting stopped out.

Markets don’t top like that. Come on, bring it home.

If price hits my limit order, I’ll take off five contracts and leave one contract running toward the buy-side liquidity.

Corking Below the Target

[20:27] Raise this up here. There you go, right underneath Consequent Encroachment of that buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency.

When I first started seeing these form, they used to scare me out of trades. I was afraid they were some kind of harbinger of doom—that the market was about to reverse on me.

What’s happening here is simply that price has reached a period where it wants to wait for a moment. Ideally, I’d like to see it rush straight up into my target right now. But if it doesn’t do it on this candlestick, then it’s corking.

[21:11] Imagine a bottle of champagne on New Year’s Eve. Everyone gets ready to celebrate, pulls out the champagne, and pops the cork.

Price action is building that little square, or something close to it. Eventually, it’s going to pop and run very quickly into my target, and hopefully all the way into the buy-side liquidity. Then we’ll have a happy ending.

But either way, if my five-contract limit order gets filled, that’s fine. I’ll raise the stop and be completely content with that.

What you’re seeing here is the reality of what price is actually doing.

Why am I bullish? Because we failed to get down to that August 4th, 2026 NQ buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency, specifically the high of its Volume Imbalance. Since price showed no willingness to go down there— Come on, man. Run up from here.

[22:44] This little annotation represents a cork. Price isn’t behaving like a classic continuation pattern. If you’re coming from a school of thought that uses bear flags, bull flags, and things like that, this isn’t really behaving that way.

It’s just a sloppy little block of price action sitting directly below a high we’re targeting, and price simply isn’t willing to move lower. It’s being stubborn.

So I envision it like a cork in a champagne bottle. Eventually, the cork gets popped, and that’s how I’m viewing price here.

[23:38] The problem is that it could slowly bleed out for a while, then finally deliver the move in the last two or three candles.

That’s very nagging for someone who’s brand new. You just want price to reach your limit order so you can be done.

I’ve been trading for a long time, so I’m accustomed to this pattern. I know that if I simply submit to time, price is likely to get up here and at least take out the high where I’m looking to sell five contracts.

[24:13] Whether or not price has enough gusto to get up there and clear the buy-side liquidity remains to be seen. Ideally, I’d like to see it pop through and go a little further—maybe up around 640. That’d be great.

But let’s at least get those five contracts filled first, and then I’ll measure whatever else is there.

Look how beautifully the upper half of that wick behaved and where the candle bodies stayed. You don’t see that anywhere else, folks. You just don’t.

You’ll want to grade the first range of the morning when you’re anticipating Seek and Destroy.

[25:37] It’s the first day of the Jackson Hole Symposium, and these people are unelected. They have a lot of money, they sit around and plan things. Everybody else calls them elites. I don’t call them elites. They’re globalists, Luciferians. They push things into policy with their money.

Throughout the session, when members come in and out, they’ll get stopped and interviewed. Then those talking points make their way onto the internet in various places.

[26:16] I don’t care what they’re saying. I don’t care.

I just know there’s going to be a whole lot of tomfoolery in price action on these days. Usually, if Seek and Destroy is going to occur, it’ll happen on the first day. That doesn’t mean it can’t happen again, but it’s usually the first day of Jackson Hole. Come on, come on, come on.

See how slow and tedious it is? Price is just dragging itself higher, very, very slowly.

I remember being a younger man watching this kind of price action, and I needed the trades to pan out.

[27:00] I needed them to work because I was an emotional wreck. If I were still like that now, I’d be losing my mind: “Man, come on. Come on.”

I would either close the trade entirely or take so much off that, even if price eventually reached my target, it wouldn’t matter because I’d only have one contract left. Then I’d never feel satisfied when it finally got there.

My experience is telling me I know what this is. **This is a fake high. **They toss that little doji in there.

[28:48] I don’t need to say anything. All of my videos could be silent and I could simply execute, but I’m having fun. That’s essential for me. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have any interest in doing this.

You have to have fun with it. All right, come on, green candles. Let’s go. Send it, send it, send it, send it, send it. It shouldn’t go any lower.

Now think about this. Say you’re in a long right here and you’re wondering how you’re supposed to sit through it. Look at how slow it is—like watching paint dry.

[29:31] It gets up there, then clicks back. Come on.

I remember so many times when I was 20 years old, sitting in drawdown, and I’d be in trades like this knowing that if the trade finally panned out, I’d be back in the plus column and the drawdown would be erased.

I’d be sitting there saying, “Come on, come on, come on.”

And having the weight of that drawdown on me—wanting to erase it, wanting to mitigate it—made it so much harder to hold onto the trade.

[30:05] It’s like, come on. Ah, there it is. Bring the stop up here. I don’t want to give anything back now.

If price comes down and stops me out, I’m okay with that. It’s only one contract. It is what it is.

So let’s see if we can get lucky here and have price squeeze higher and bump that high.

See how it kept that buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency open? It only gave an Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill and left part of the imbalance unfilled. That was wonderful.

Continuation Signal and Stop Discipline

[31:26] That’s always indicative of continuation to the upside.

Anyway, if I’m being honest, I’m going to be a little upset with myself for the rest of the day that I didn’t buy the low candle. I knew I wanted to do it, but I second-guessed myself because I’m putting so much emphasis on the fact that this is a Seek and Destroy profile.

I know I can get it wrong on days like this. I can get stopped out, or price simply might not reach my target.

[32:00] This is starting to look a little toppy to me. They could come back down and take out those wicks just underneath my stop loss.

But you never, never, never want to pull the stop back.

I’ve already secured a payday. I worked for this position, and I’m not doing it on a charity basis. So the stop stays where it is.

Never give up a higher payday. Nobody in the working class does that. Working-class hero.

You don’t give your boss a freebie. You’re there for gainful employment.

[32:50] So yeah, I’m a little perturbed with myself because I really like to be in the actual high and low candles when they form. That’s just something I aim for.

I know it probably doesn’t seem practical for you to think that’s possible right now. But given enough time—I’ve been doing this for 33 years—I know what I’m doing once in a while, right? I get lucky once in a while.

Okay, that doesn’t look good. That definitely looks like it wants to come back down for my stop.

[33:26] If I had two contracts on, I would’ve taken one off.

Oh yeah, they’re going for the stop. This is going to happen.

Sit back, relax, and let it happen.