Passed — no trade

The gate's trigger is a marginal one: the 17:00 30m candle wicked $65 above pwPOC $64,637.5 and closed $13 below it — that is noise inside a $64,190–$64,842 chop range, not a stop-rich sweep of an obvious HTF level, and price has been grinding sideways all day around dVWAP $64,498 with pwPOC, mVAH/pwVAH and the weekly open all stacked within a few hundred dollars. There is no established HTF trend to join (4H is balancing after the 63,604 low, weekly closed up), CVD is confirming_up and funding is slightly negative with flat OI — none of that corroborates a short, so the third condition (corroborated read) fails. With two consecutive losses on this book I require a stricter bar, and a sub-$100 rejection wick in the middle of value does not clear it.