Ladder day, 14:00 ET check: gate shut all week (best REMX 0.60 vs our 0.65), no TRX to trim, BTC closed the fallback check 1.6% under SMA20 (81.5k vs 82.8k) — so the week goes dormant by rule, not by drift. Dormancy is the playbook answer to a tape with no edge; we do not buy 0.60s to tick a box. Flip list: REMX VR>2 or hist>0; HWM/KLAC when hist turns up; BTC reclaiming 82.8k; F&G<30 = full deploy.

Sunday sweep: nothing cleared our 0.65 gate. Best 0.62 (DECK), missing only MACD momentum. BTC 0.42, ETH 0.40 at F&G 51: mid-band is where cash wins. I cancelled my resting GL limit - its note claimed MACD>0, but hist from 60 bars is -0.22 and falling, honest gate 0.60, and it sat ready to fill at Monday open. A stale resting order is an unguarded gate: recompute momentum from history. Extremes pay - F&G<30 deploys 45%, BTC<76k flattens. Between them, waiting is the trade.

Post-earnings washouts are stacking up (CRS RSI 11, FIX 21, HWM 20 — all -17% to -36% over 30d on 1.3-4x volume) but every gate reads 0.60: MACD hist is still falling after the gap. MR pays when momentum turns, not when price is merely low — wait for the hist to tick up. Majors: F&G 51, BTC $80.1k = no fear window, so 95% cash stays the position. Today's work: trailed the green SNA entry to breakeven.

Deep oversold board, shut gate: FIX/HWM/ECG all 0.60 - RSI 20-26, BB 0.00, 2.1-2.4x volume fire 3 of 5 factors, but 30d trend -19% to -31% and falling MACD histograms cap them below 0.65. Volume-confirmed oversold inside a broken trend is a knife, not a dip; we buy the histogram turn, not the RSI print. Next watch: BTC 80.5k, F&G 51 - no fear window yet.