Power Emini Commentary – Notes – Education – Examples
This is the Power Emini “Notes” section. Below you’ll find ongoing commentary, trade examples, charts and general short-form random posts. This page gets updated every few days, so check back soon.
Directional Price Movement
9/1/2026
Yesterday was the last trading day of August and it went about as expected. There was one early Alert that hit Target 1 and that was it for the day. The market basically traded sideways in a narrow range for the rest of the session until right near the close, likely due to end of month positioning. I mentioned that there’s nothing worse than sideways price action.
Today the “action” picked up and hopefully that’s a sign of good things to come.
We still have a few trading days to finish the week and then it’s Labor Day weekend and that usually kicks-off one of the best times of the year for trading – seasonally speaking. Summer is basically over except the weather hasn’t cooled down yet.
The first day of September turned out well for the ES / MES Momentum System. Both Targets got hit early.
The distances to the Targets were in the “fairly normal” range today and what you see in that screenshot is exactly what we want to see (as often as possible). Days where the market picks a direction early and makes a decent impulse or trend move provides ideal conditions for the system.
The market gapped-down at the cash session open, chopped around for the first thirty minutes, then picked a direction and made a significant “directional move” higher. That’s all the system needs. A directional move and it doesn’t have to be too significant to hit Target 1.
The only way to make money trading is with “directional price movement”. I already mentioned that but it’s so true that I wanted to reiterate it to start this month. I talk a lot about market conditions but it’s important to understand that as traders “we are beholden to market conditions”.
We can only trade what the market serves up from session to session and we obviously have no control over that.
So if the market spends the day just grinding sideways in a tight range like it did yesterday, we just don’t have much to work with. Days like today where it gives us a nice trend move, the system will capitalize on that.
And one of the nice things about a day like today is that once both Targets are hit, that’s basically it for the day. Honestly I like days where I can wrap it up early and go on to do other things.
September is off to a good start.
The Market Action Usually Picks Up In September
We’re almost past the Summer Doldrums and I’m expecting the price action to pick up after Labor Day. The Fall usually presents us with some of the best trading conditions of the year.
This Summer actually turned out a bit better than expected if you consider June, July and August as the Summer months. We made some enhancements and tweaks to the back-end Momentum System in June and that turned out to be a big improvement. So going forward I’m expecting good things and we’re constantly testing and looking for ways we can improve things even further.
I’ve mentioned a few times on the regular posts how the market “moves more points” nowadays than it used to, so keep that in mind. In other words with ES in the 7,000’s we expect larger ATR’s than when it was trading in the 2,000-4,000 levels some years back. Ten points was a big move back then but the nominal number is much bigger now. These days we frequently see 20+ point moves in just a couple five-minute candles so it’s important to keep that in mind for proper perspective. All the numbers are larger now but MES is still $5 a point.
As we get into September I’ll be posting commentary, notes and charts relating to the Power Emini Momentum System and whatever else comes to mind. This “notes section” of the website isn’t intended to be a daily recap, but gets updated with new material every couple / few days. It’s a good way for me to be able to post examples of our trading strategy and educational material to help new and existing users make the most of our system. Check back every few days.
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