Strategy rules.
Complete execution model.
Umar Ashraf's public favorite-strategy breakdown begins before the open: he maps the previous session, the pre-market structure, and multiple gap-day scenarios instead of committing to a fixed directional bias. During the New York cash open he allows roughly five to fifteen minutes for an initial range to form, then reads ES Footprint, DOM and tape for evidence that aggressive market orders are no longer moving price. His documented setup was a bearish gap-up failure executed with SPY puts after buy absorption at resistance. The strategy applies the explicitly discussed bullish counterpart—Gap Hold & Go. ES gaps above the prior close, the opening pullback holds the gap and opening low, aggressive sellers are absorbed by a passive buyer, and a five-minute reclaim of the opening-range high triggers the long. The stop sits below the opening low/gap-hold zone; partials are set at the next liquidity objective and the remainder exits before midday. Umar also trades equities and options, but ES is the primary instrument because his public breakdown uses ES order flow to guide the SPY options execution.
Strategy logic · entry, invalidation and objective map.
