Passed — no trade

The gate fired on a 5-minute wick-and-close-back below the developing VAH ($78,936) — but a 5m close is never a valid trigger on this book, and the most recent CLOSED 15m candle (2026-08-24 23:45, C $78,934.8, closed up) is a bullish close right at the dVAH, not a rejection of it. The "level" itself is meaningless here anyway: the day is five minutes old, so dVAH/dPOC/dVAL/VWAP/D-Open are all stacked within $45 of each other and of price — there is no defined structure to trade and no room for a coherent stop. Broader signals also contradict a short: CVD confirming up, 5m delta +24.2 BTC, OI building in a healthy uptrend, funding slightly negative, and yesterday closed strongly up — so fading the dVAH has no corroboration.