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From premarket to close: daily workflow
Make the platform part of your daily research process instead of opening it only when you notice a large node or block trade.
Premarket: establish context
- First check earnings, economic releases, rate decisions, expiries, and other events that can change liquidity.
- Open Market Trends: check whether overall sentiment, sector flows, and the intraday direction agree.
- Open GEX: mark the most important nodes, checkpoints, and air pockets above and below spot for the ticker you are studying.
- Write a thesis on the chart: does today look more like a range, a trend, or a disorderly market waiting on an event?
Open: locate price
The job at the open is not to trade immediately. Observe how price relates to the premarket structure: is it near a key area, moving through it quickly, or diverging from Market Trends or related markets?
If nodes fade or migrate quickly after the open, treat the premarket map as information that needs revalidation. Do not execute it mechanically.
Session: wait for confirmation
| What you see | Next step |
|---|---|
| Price reaches an important node | Look for rejection, reclaim, a post-breakout retest, or sustained acceptance; the node itself is not a trigger. |
| Price enters an air pocket | Expect movement through it to be faster; focus on the next structural node at the other end. |
| A large options / dark pool trade appears | Investigate expiry, size, OI, repetition, and price structure. Do not copy the trade directly. |
| The structure reshuffles or markets conflict | Pause new conclusions and repeat the six-step process. |
Close: review the structure
Record whether the morning's key nodes actually produced a reaction, which nodes price crossed, when the structure changed, and what confirmation you missed at the time. The purpose of review is not to prove that a forecast was right, but to learn under which conditions a structure holds.
For every trade—or trade you passed on—record “structure, confirmation, invalidation.” That is more useful than recording profit and loss alone.