Charts, process, and analysis on stocks and indices. The Mando Model, daily. NFA
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The Mando Model is the trading model I created using ICT concepts to form a repeatable trading framework for myself.
It’s built around higher-timeframe context + liquidity + structure + imbalances.
Here’s the core logic broken down 🧵 $SPY
Master these 6 liquidity rules.
- Treat liquidity as money. No money, no move.
- Mark every swing high and swing low.
- Assume stops are resting above highs and below lows.
- Watch how price reacts after a sweep.
- Favor higher time frame levels. Those lead to reversals.
- Ask one question: which pool is price drawing to next?
The market is just searching for its next pool of liquidity.
Homework: go back on any chart, find a swing low that got taken out, and watch what price does next.
Psychology won't save you without a plan.
🎲 No game plan, no model = you're just rolling the dice.
Build the model first, then work on the mindset.
Most traders quit during the exact stretch that separates the average from the consistent.
They quit when the losses stack up.
When the strategy feels broken.
When their friends are flashing new cars and they’re still grinding charts at 2 AM.
The market doesn’t care how many courses you bought or how hard you studied.
It only cares whether you can execute with discipline when every instinct in your body is screaming to do the opposite.
Protect your capital.
Follow your rules.
Review your journal.
Then show up tomorrow and do it again.
The ones who make it aren’t the smartest in the room.
They’re the ones who refused to quit on the process.
Do you have what it takes?
Every timeframe is tied to a repeating sequence that unfolds across both time and price.
That sequence is the algorithm that delivers every day, unless manual intervention steps in and disrupts it.
I try to stay out of those intervention windows, but I’m not sure it’s completely unavoidable…
You backtested it. You proved it. So why are you still sweating every trade?
Set the alerts, close the chart, let it play out. $SPY
The AI trade took another hit this week, but it was milder than last week’s thrashing.
$QQQ finished ~-0.7% (after last week’s -4.5%+).
The early week pump wasn’t enough to prevent the formation of new weekly resistance (bearish imbalance) and a new level to the downside has formed for the first time since February 2025.
Semiconductors $SOXX down ~3% (with a nasty ~7% hammering on Thursday).
$META and $TSLA earnings couldn’t save the market this time around either…
$CL Oil ripped higher again on the narrative of renewed Middle East tensions, while forming a weekly support level in the process.
Meanwhile $YM finished green (~+0.4%) as money rotated into energy, banks, and other non-AI areas.
Healthy breadth rotation everyone claimed they wanted… or the AI-driven 2026 bull market still showing cracks as the cost of capital and heavy spending bite?
Buying the dip in tech/ $NVDA or still raising cash?