AM Briefing — Tuesday, September 1, 2026 | ES & MES Futures

3 Lessons From Today's AM Briefing It is September, and if you are honest, your pre-market routine got thin over the summer. The tape was dead and it let you get away with it. The fall will not, so here is what today was teaching. Lesson 1: Write your routine down A routine you carry in your head is a routine you skip. Put the checklist on paper… Battle Plan read, overnight levels marked, yesterday's POC known, journal current, and fix the ones that make you flinch. Lesson 2: A no-trade day is a decision When price never reaches a location that tells you what to do, you Stand Down. Forcing trades off-location costs you the capital and the mindset you need for the days that actually pay. Lesson 3: Trail the runner behind protection Peel your contracts down to the final one, then hold at breakeven or trail behind protection layers instead of a naked stop. That is how you hold for a bigger move without giving back what you banked. Watch the briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAVzlGxCAHI Full show notes, charts & timeline: https://microstrader.com/am-briefing-845-give-your-pre-market-routine-a-september-tune-up/ The Trading Library — 140 free lessons from 1,000+ live sessions: https://microstrader.com/library/ Get today's ES/MES Battle Plan: https://microstrader.com/battleplan/ Today's live stream is FREE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@microstrader/live