This is the strategy built directly on the levels we publish every morning: buying NQ at the put wall, the strike where dealer hedging supplies mechanical demand into a selloff. Most strategies fade a price. This one fades into a known pool of hedging flow. Full rules below.
Three preconditions, all mandatory. First, positive gamma regime: price must be trading above the hedge flip level, because that is the world where dealer hedging leans against moves and the put wall behaves like a floor. Below the flip level this exact trade becomes a donation, so the strategy is simply switched off. Second, it must be the first touch of the put wall today: first touches carry the freshest hedging response. Third, no scheduled event risk in the next 30 minutes: a put wall does not care about your plans when CPI prints.
Define the zone, not a line: from 10 points in front of the wall to the wall itself. Two entry styles. Passive: a limit order inside the front half of the zone, accepting you may buy into momentum. Confirmation: let price trade into the zone, then enter when a 1-minute candle closes back above the zone with a higher low behind it. The confirmation entry gives up a few points and skips the days the floor was never defended. New traders should take the confirmation entry, full stop.
A fixed 20 points beyond the far side of the wall. The zone plus 20 gives the level room to be swept, and put walls get swept: the low of the day frequently prints a handful of points through the strike before the bounce, which is a liquidity sweep doing its job on tight stops. If 20 beyond the wall is more risk than your account can size properly with the sizing formula, trade MNQ, not a tighter stop.
Prove it to yourself on sim first: two weeks minimum, every trade logged against these exact rules. The outer put wall, hedge flip, and regime read are published free three times every trading day on the NQ levels page. The inner walls, where this setup gets its earlier entries, are part of Pro.
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