If I told you you’d make 100K trading this year but only if you followed your rules every single trade, would you do it?

Before you answer that, let me ask you a different question.

What’s your plan, and what are your rules?

The ones you’ve actually defined, written down, and know by heart.

The nature of trading is one where, on occasion, you can make money with no plan, no skill, and no real knowledge of the markets. Trading is one of those things where you can get lucky…until you don’t.

That’s how you end up in the loop. Wins feel validating, so you go back to the table thinking you can recreate it, and losses get minimized because it always feels like you can make them up. You don’t even need a win that covers the losses, you just need one that makes you feel like you’re back on track.

Having a plan, an operating system, is the only way you’ll have a chance at being consistently profitable in the market. Your plan should include everything from your setups, to how you size and manage risk, to your triggers and self-management when you’re tired, reactive, or tempted to force it.

My operating system, the TTR OS, starts with a Plan Purpose and Objectives.

Before even getting to the fun stuff of defining setups and trade management, your plan should answer four things:

• What is this plan designed to prevent?
• What is this plan designed to enforce?
• What financial objective is this plan structured around?
• What execution standard must be upheld for this plan to function?

That foundation shapes everything else.

From there, the plan continues into:

• Risk Framework

• Core Trade Models (Setup → Entry → Management → Exit)

• Triggers & Self-Management

• Market & Technical Framework

• Review & Governance

Next Saturday (2/21/26) at 12P EST, I’m walking you through the structure that led to my first six figures, and showing you how to start building your own plan from the ground up. You’ll outline it live, then leave with a simple first draft you can refine as you go. Free for all community members.

Join the community and get access here.

SPX Review and Outlook

On the weekly timeframe, we are still operating inside the same broad range between 6,800 and 7,000. We first pushed into that upper band in October, pulled back, and then reclaimed 6,800 at the end of November. Since then, price has repeatedly rotated between those boundaries without resolving either direction.

The last two weekly highs came in at 6,993.08 and 6,993.48, both stalling just under 7,000. On the other side, 6,800 continues to attract buyers, with only brief, short-lived dips below it. That keeps the structure unresolved. Until we break and hold outside of this box, we are still in range behavior.

This leaves next week with familiar questions, but from a slightly different location, because now we are closer to the lower end of the range again.

Scenario 1: Rotation Continues Inside the Range

If buying continues from last week’s pivot low, the first level overhead is 6,918, which has acted as a rejection area before. A push through 6,918 opens the path back toward 7,000, keeping the range intact and simply rotating price back toward the upper boundary.

In this scenario:

• 6,800 continues acting as support

• 6,918 is reclaimed and held

• 7,000 is tested again

This would keep the broader range in place without resolving it.

Scenario 2: Retest Fails, Range Breaks to the Downside

The second scenario starts with a move back toward 6,918 as a retest of Thursday’s large selling candle, though this does not have to happen because Friday can be read as the retest attempt already. If 6,918 rejects price and we lose 6,800, then we are no longer simply rotating inside the range. At that point, the downside levels to watch are:

• 6,765

• 6,720

• 6,655

If those do not hold, the larger weekly level at 6,550 becomes the major structural support, and a break below 6,800 would begin resolving this range to the downside.

On the daily chart, the triple top near 7,000 makes this downside scenario more credible if momentum builds. Repeated rejection near the highs, followed by loss of support, often accelerates once the floor gives way.

Scenario 3: Upside Resolution Scenario

If we finally break 7,000 and hold above it on a weekly basis, that signals range resolution to the upside. Acceptance above 7,000 would shift pullbacks from rejection zones into potential support zones, and that would mark a transition out of this multi-month rotation.

The levels are mapped. Now we let price show its hand.
Our job is to respond with structure, not emotion.

‘Til Next Time!