weekend ed

July 25, 2026

This One Change Paid Me Huge on Wednesday

by Tony Rago

Hey trader,

We’ve all had trades that worked out perfectly…only to come up a hair short of the profit target.

It’s incredibly frustrating.

That happened to me last week….before a single adjustment changed the entire course of the trading day.

Wednesday's open looked like barbed wire. The NQ was printing 30-point bars with wicks stacked all around VWAP.

Trump was on the wire telling Iran he would bomb their bridges. Iran was answering back about Dubai.

The tape slammed up, slammed down, and faked out anyone who tried to time it. I sat on my hands through most of it.

A couple of my early futures-room entries came right back and stopped me at even. That is an open where you can be dead right on direction and still get taken out.

By mid-morning the barbed wire was gone.

The room booked three clean winners: A short 26 for twenty-five handles. A long 77 for another twenty-five. A second long 77 for twenty-five more.

Those numbers did not come from a new setup or a new indicator. 

They came from one number I moved on my bracket.

This is the number that decides whether those reads pay you or scratch you. 

It costs nothing to change, and it needs no new tool on your screen.

That is the difference between a fifty-handle day and a flat one. So let me show you exactly what I moved and why.

P.S. Look, I’ve been day trading markets for years. I spent time at the CBOE learning from the top floor traders.

My Golden Setup came from the knowledge gave me combined with real-world testing.

Now, it’s your turn to put it to the test.

Join me in the Golden Setup Room. We day trade live, examining risk, and learning how to turn my strategy into mechanical trading.