DAILY BILLU'S WATCHLIST

OPTIONS STRATEGY — 0DTE INTRADAY

The system in one line: liquidity-aware breakout / break-and-retest entries on the day's watchlist, confirmed on candle closes, exited on the ladder, flat by 1:00 PM CT.

Session & risk — Layer A · execution v2.1

• Entries 9:15 AM–12:45 PM CT; flat by 1:00 PM CT. Same-day in/out only — no overnight holds.
• 2% risk per trade, max 2 contracts. Weekly loss limit −6%; after 2 consecutive losses, stop and reassess (2-loss cooldown).
• Daily loss limit: NOT SET UNDECIDED — no daily amount has been approved; the weekly −6% is the only hard cap.
• LOTTO exception: a flagged 10-contract cheap lotto exists for learning/review only — outside the system, flagged every time it is used.

Contract choice

• Delta 0.60–0.70 — slightly in the money; 0DTE or nearest expiry.
• Spread gate ≤5% of mid at signal and at entry.
• Both expiries quoted on every play — this Friday and next Friday, with premiums.
• Execution is manual in Webull — plain Limit (Day) orders only; the board never places or simulates orders.

Entry gates

• Break bar ≥1.5× time-of-day RVOL (the same 5-minute bar's 14-session mean); 2× after 10:30 AM CT.
• Skip dead ranges (ATR filter); prefer confluence — VWAP + premarket high/low + open road ahead.
• Preferred shape: pullback into a fair-value gap (FVG) after the break; missed runners are journaled, not chased.
• Direction-agnostic: calls above the line, puts below — the best setup wins, never a calls bias.

Stops & exits — Layer A

• Structure stops: beyond the FVG / invalidation level — never at obvious swing points or round numbers.
• ~45% premium stop is the disaster backstop only — not the working stop.
• Exits are measured in R (R = entry-to-stop distance on the underlying): +1R → stop to breakeven; +2R → bank half (1 of 2); then trail at peak excursion − 0.5R, up only.
• 15-minute clock: if the trade hasn't reached +1R in 15 minutes, exit; if it has, trail until the 1:00 PM flat time.
• Profit habit: Bilal takes profits around +25% premium; every play is also quoted with its full-run (zone-to-zone) potential.

Board signal layer — Layer B

• Liquidity-aware triggers: never on PDH/PDL or PMH/PML. Levels group the prior-day and pre-market extremes, equal-high/low pools (~6 weeks), the nearest supply/demand shelf edge and the nearest round number into a sweep cluster; the trigger sits beyond the whole cluster plus a small ATR buffer, never inside a shelf. A level already swept and reclaimed today flips that side to break-and-retest (↺).
• Regime + sentiment weighting: SPY/QQQ regime and Jev news sentiment weight the edition CALLS-WEIGHTED / PUTS-WEIGHTED / BALANCED — weights, never gates.
• Confirmation — the 3rd candle rule: ENTER fires on the 3rd consecutive 5-minute close beyond the trigger (the break candle counts as #1; a close back through resets). The 15-minute count is confluence; 3 + 3 = FULL CONFIRMATION.
• On every card: the live 0DTE / nearest-expiry contract + premium, gamma walls and flip, rolling 30-minute options flow, the catalyst line, and the next liquidity zone beyond the trigger — context, not confirmation.
• Exit ladder: on ENTER — play clock and peak-run tracking; premium TP +25% / SL −45% badges; TIME CHECK at 15 minutes; FADING as a composite score (5m against-streak, 15m against-close, VWAP trend loss, ≥50% peak give-back, liquidity-zone rejection — fires at 2+ legs, un-latches on recovery); ⚡ 1M FADE early warning (3 against 1-minute closes, or premium −15%); REVERSED on a completed close back through the trigger.
• Signal ledger: every ENTER is logged with its contract, entry premium and full event timeline — see the LOG tab. The board's own track record, kept whether or not Bilal takes the trade.

Open seams UNDECIDED

• Premium-% exits vs R exits: the board displays +25% / −45% premium badges while Layer A's working exits are in R. Both are shown today; R governs the strategy.
• Confirmation-candle count: 3 closes is standing; 1 vs 2 vs 3 is under review — the ledger will settle it with Bilal's own data.
• Daily loss limit: unset (see Session & risk above).

Evidence review of this rule set: see “0DTE Strategy Evidence Review” in the Library — no research recommendation is adopted until Bilal rules.

SWING RULES

• Shares only. The swing book is $100k in shares, not options.
• Targets 25–55% upside (35%+ is the strongest); holds run a week to 3 months — out sooner when targets hit.
• BIG MONEY early is the priority signal — block trades, dark-pool prints, insider buying, fresh initiations — checked before a name graduates, together with a 1-year zone backtest.
• Evidence tiers: HIGH — ATRO. MEDIUM — SNDK, MRVL, LSCC, MU, MPWR, CHRD (enter on confirmation). SPECULATIVE — PR, SGI.
• Every idea carries an entry zone and an invalidation price on its card; screener invalidations are daily closes below the mapped level.
• STX was closed on 2026-10-28 — no position; no STX shares were bought.

SWING STRATEGY

• EMA-200 non-tech screener: liquid names (roughly ≥1M shares/day) OUTSIDE tech/AI — food & beverage first, then other non-tech sectors — that have fallen on market sentiment rather than broken fundamentals (no guidance collapses, fraud, or dying businesses) and are running at their 200-day EMA, holding it as support or about to break back above it, with entries forming. The list runs weekly, Mondays.
• Zone entry mapping — one target entry per name: at the line → entry is the EMA 200 itself (buy the hold); pressing from below → entry is a break above the higher of the EMA 200 and the 10-session high (buy the confirmed reclaim, not the anticipation); just crossed → entry is the pullback to the EMA 200.
• Invalidation with every entry: a daily close below the mapped level — below the 10-session low for at-the-line and break names; ~2% under the EMA 200 for pullback names.
• Exits: out when the 25–55% targets hit; otherwise the week-to-3-month hold window governs — never after the move has already run.

FEED STRATEGY

• Three buckets: index & market regime — SPY, QQQ, IWM, always on the list; high-beta megacaps — NVDA, TSLA primary, AAPL, AMD, AMZN, MSFT secondary; daily catalyst wildcards (earnings, relative strength/weakness, FDA / upgrade / downgrade movers).
• Filters — a name must clear at least one: RVOL ≥ 2× average volume (pre-market or prior session), or a catalyst (earnings, FDA decisions, major upgrades/downgrades, macro prints — CPI / FOMC days flagged at the top). Levels are mapped for every name: previous-day high/low, pre-market high/low, major multi-week support/resistance zones.
• Side priority is sentiment-weighted: the index regime (SPY/QQQ vs VWAP and the Ripster EMA clouds — calls only above the 34–50 cloud, puts only below) sets the base side; Jev AI news sentiment tips individual names. The header shows CALLS-WEIGHTED / PUTS-WEIGHTED / BALANCED with the split, and flips when the intraday regime flips.
• Execution triggers: pre-market breakout (ORB — a candle closes outside the pre-market high/low in the first 5–15 minutes); previous-day high/low continuation with surging volume; relative strength/weakness scalps. Both directions are always in play; no pre-emptive entries.
• Confirmation — the 3rd candle rule: count consecutive candle closes beyond the trigger line, starting with the break candle (candle 1 = the first close beyond the line). ENTER fires when the 3rd confirmation candle closes on the 5-minute chart; the 15-minute count runs as confluence — both at 3 is full confirmation. A close back through the line resets the count to zero.
• Daily rhythm (CT): ~8:05 AM pre-market build, 8:35 AM narrowing to the top intraday picks, intraday refreshes ~10:35 AM and ~12:35 PM when the market changes side.
• v2.1 desk rules govern execution: entries 9:15 AM–12:45 PM CT, flat by 1:00 PM CT. 2% risk per trade, max 2 contracts. All exits in R on the underlying: +1R → stop to breakeven; +2R → bank half; trail = peak excursion − 0.5R. Structure-based stops (beyond FVG/invalidation); the ~45% premium stop is only the disaster backstop. Break bars ≥1.5× time-of-day RVOL (2× after 10:30 AM); spread gate ≤5% of mid at signal and entry; delta 0.60–0.70 (slightly ITM). Loss limits: −6% weekly; 2-loss cooldown.
• Research only — Bilal executes himself in Webull; the watchlist feeds the desk and never places or simulates orders.