🧪 Everyone Was Bearish. We Were Already In.

Good Morning! 

Markets are wild, war headlines are flying, and most traders are still waiting for permission to move. Not us.

At TradingLab, we’re already three steps ahead, calling market turns, fading the herd, and cashing in on setups most won’t even see coming.

This week? Sherlock nailed a textbook play on $USDT.D while the crowd was still crying bear market. War tremors? Just noise if you know how to read the structure.

Scroll down, we’ve got the full breakdown, the catalyst, and the play you should have been in.

Let’s get into it 👇

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🌡 TradingLab’s Headline Roundup

Stock Markets

• Nasdaq Futures Plunge 2% as Israel Flares Up War Tensions After Attack on Iran

• Meta Stock Edges Up as Traders Cheer Zuck’s AI Ambitions, $14 Billion into Scale AI?

Crypto

• Bitcoin Wipes Out 5% as Risk-Off Moves Dominate Markets amid War Tremors

• Shopify launches early access to USDC stablecoin payments on Base

• Ethereum Treasury Firm SharpLink Gaming Plunges 70% – But There May Be a Twist

• Huione darknet humming at ‘full capacity’ despite shutdown

• Czech government hit with no-confidence vote over $45M Bitcoin scandal

Forex/Commodities

• Gold Prices Rally to $3,440 as Traders Seek Shelter amid Israel-Iran Conflict

• Sterling Hits Sell Wall at $1.36 as UK Economy Shrinks 0.3% in April

📈 What Am I Trading?

The Play

Sherlock's been ahead of the curve (again), calling out a contrarian read on $USDT.D while the crowd was busy panicking.

Here’s the trade setup from the lab:

• Entry Zone for Shorts: On every retracement upside near the POC or 0.705 Fib level on $USDT.D.

• Exit Target: Watching for a break and close below 4.53% on $USDT.D to correspond with a move below $100K on BTC.D.

• Invalidation: Clean break and close above 4.98% (major swing high).

This chart? Pure textbook: major swing low sweep, retracement into confluence, and now we're printing higher highs on dominance.

The Catalyst

News flow added fuel to the setup, US-China tensions stirred the risk pot earlier this week, causing market-wide jitters and forcing shorts to exit break-even. Despite that shakeout, dominance structure held firm and played exactly as expected. That brief chaos? Just the setup breathing before the next leg.

Our Take

USDT dominance is showing a classic retrace after a CHOCH/MSS, coming into the daily POC and 0.705 Fib before exploding back up. That’s typically where smart money reloads. Sherlock’s been calling it out for days, while most were caught with their pants down.

If you’re seeing retracements on BTC, that’s not bullish, it’s distribution. And $USDT.D heading for new highs means only one thing: risk-off, and shorts are the play.

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