Passed — no trade

The gate fired on a 30m rejection of the M 6c VAH $78,500, but that is a trivial $60 wick inside a two-hour $78,350–78,610 chop range, not a stop-rich sweep of an obvious HTF level — price has been oscillating either side of $78,500 all session, so the "rejection" is noise rather than a trigger. There is no confirming structure for a short either: price sits right on the daily VWAP ($78,539) and dPOC ($78,488), above the developing wLow/mVAL support band ($77,577/$77,057), with weekly and monthly candles closed up and OI falling (shorts covering, not longs trapped). Missing element: a genuine confirming trigger at a level worth trading — this is chop in the middle of value, and I will not open a counter-hedge short here.