Passed — no trade

The trigger is a 30m close through the developing wPOC/wVAL/M-6c-VAH cluster ($78,731.5 / $78,577 / $78,500) — a bearish break — but the location is wrong for a fresh short: price is sitting right on top of the developing weekly low $77,576.9 / mVAL $77,171 / pwVAL $76,970 support shelf after a 549 BTC flush wick to $77,988, and shorting momentum into major HTF support is exactly the fade the method forbids. Nor is there a continuation trend to join — the 4H/daily tape is a choppy 77.5k–80.5k range, not lower highs and lower lows, and the weekly/monthly closes are up. With T2 needing to be the weekly low zone barely ~1.3% away against a stop above $79,700, the R:R to any honest T2 is under 1:1, so there is no clean short here; the only permitted short would be a rejection at wVAH/pwPOC ($79,668–$79,706) which has not printed.