Passed — no trade

The gate fired on the developing month POC ($63,916.5), but the "trigger" is a marginal 30m candle that opened $0.90 above the level and closed $63 below it — noise inside a $63.5k–$64.1k chop, not a rejection at a strong HTF level. Price is sitting essentially on top of dev mPOC, daily VWAP ($63,908) and pwPOC ($64,114) with the 4H tape balanced between wVAL $62,744 and pwVAH $65,555 — mid-range, the exact location the method says not to trade — and there is no swept level reclaimed and no established trend to join. With two consecutive losses on this book I need a stricter-than-usual read, and this fails on trigger quality and location.