Long thesis

Structure: pdEQ $76,948.5 — a Tier 1 settled level and, per the material, the strongest single directional read of the prior day's range — sitting right on the developing dVAL $76,908 / dPOC $76,932 cluster and just under daily VWAP $77,073. Trigger: the 00:30 UTC 15m candle (CLOSED, per trigger facts) wicked to $76,908.5, sweeping pdEQ and the developing day low $76,908.5, and closed back above at $77,030.8 — a textbook sweep-reclaim/SFP of an obvious, stop-rich pre-existing level, with the reclaim close taken at the close as the wick itself defines the stop. Corroboration: funding is mildly negative (-0.0063%, shorts paying — no crowded long positioning), OI is bleeding off (-0.37% 4h) into the flush which reads as shorts/longs being stopped rather than fresh conviction sellers, sentiment is Greed (65), and the level sits inside the prior day's value with price rotating in balance ($76,178–$77,718) — value-area logic favours a rotation up from the VAL/EQ edge. The CVD/5m delta is confirming down, which is exactly the aggressive selling being absorbed at the level that did not produce a new low — the risk I accept, and why I bank a slightly larger 20% at T1. Stop $76,750 gives ~0.25% buffer below the $76,908.5 sweep wick and below pdPOC/D-nPOC↓ $76,699.5 is not needed — a close back below the wick kills it. T1 $77,163 = developing dVAH (just above VWAP), T2 $77,321.4 = developing day high / just under D-Open $77,270.6 zone, T3 $77,650.6 = weekly open. R:R entry-to-T2 = 290.6 / 280.8 ≈ 1.03:1, which sits in the 1:1–2:1 band, so I invoke the named-setup exception below.