Passed — no trade

The 18:30 15m candle did close below pdEQ $78,500 / M-Open $78,511.5 / pdPOC $78,488.5, but the break is worthless as a trigger: it printed on 3.1 BTC of volume into the dead late-session tape, with no delta response (Σ -18.6 BTC over 30m) and open interest weakening/falling (-0.83% 4h), i.e. shorts covering rather than new sellers — a poor reaction at the level, which the method treats as a sufficient reason to pass. There is also no retest: price sits at $78,443, already below the trigger body, so entering here is the extension, not the return to the broken level. Structure is a chop/balance around the pd value area (pdVAL $78,166 / pdPOC $78,488 / dVAL $78,653) with VWAP $79,003 overhead — no established trend to join, and mid-value POC chop is the 50/50 location the method says not to trade.