Bull Breakout Hits Target: SPX Dull, Boring, Going Up Forever | SPX Market Briefing | 23 Sep 2025

The SPX bull breakout swing lazily chugged to its target, and trades reached its buy back exit early yesterday morning. Sometimes the most boring trades are the most profitable ones – systematic precision over excitement every time.

Strategies are always evolving and developing, and the Premium Popper strategy may soon have 2 new family members currently in development. Software update rolling out soon, along with training. Watch this space!

Keep scrolling for the dull SPX reality and /CL opportunity…

SPX Market Briefing:

Today’s market story is beautifully mundane: systematic approaches working exactly as designed while everyone else searches for excitement.

Current Systematic Status:

• SPX Bull Swing: Target reached, Trade #1 buy back exit completed early morning

• Market Sentiment: Dull, boring, going up like it’s never coming back

• System Status: Waiting for new entry opportunity, bear side now reopened

• Strategy Development: Premium Popper getting 2 new family members in works

The Beautiful Boredom of Systematic Success:

SPX is doing exactly what trending markets do – grinding higher in the most boring way possible. No drama, no excitement, just mechanical precision delivering profits while discretionary traders get frustrated by the lack of “action.”

This is systematic trading at its finest. The bull swing that we established weeks ago has delivered its target, the trade management worked flawlessly, and now the system patiently waits for the next high-probability setup.

Bear Side Reopens:

With the breakout target reached, the bear side of the systematic approach is now back open for business. This doesn’t mean we’re turning bearish – it means we’re prepared for whatever market structure emerges next, whether continuation higher or eventual correction lower.

Premium Popper Evolution:

Strategy development never stops. The Premium Popper approach is expanding with 2 new family members currently in development. Our private group will have the raw notes and understand the mechanical improvements coming to the systematic arsenal.

Software updates and training materials are being finalized for rollout. These aren’t minor tweaks – they’re substantial additions that expand the systematic approach’s capabilities across different market conditions.

Crude Oil Opportunity – /CL Tag ‘n Turn:

For a bit of fun beyond the SPX grind, I’ve been eyeing /CL futures on the 4-hour chart. Price has “tagged” the lower Bollinger band, setting up the potential “turn” component of our Tag ‘n Turn strategy.

The turn signal would be pulse bars (not shown on chart) or a V-shaped entry pattern. A more traditional entry approach applies here: Entry – Stop – Target methodology.

For eagle-eyed traders, you’ll notice we also have the “6 Money Making Patterns” in play:

• Pattern #3: Bullish at range lows (currently active)

• Pattern #6: Assess bearish break below range lows (if breakout down occurs)

Today’s Tactical Plan:

Sometimes the best trading days are the ones where the system does the work while you handle life’s other priorities.

Fun Fact: The Great Bull Market of 2009-2020: The 11-Year Victory Lap

The bull market from March 2009 to March 2020 lasted 11 years and gained over 400%-the longest bull run in U.S. history until COVID-19 crashed the party!

This bull market was so legendary it made every previous bull run look like a casual jog around the block.

From March 2009 to March 2020, the S&P 500 went on an 11-year bender that gained over 400%, making millionaires out of anyone who managed not to panic-sell during the occasional 5% dip.

The bull market was so long that entire financial careers were built on nothing but upward trending charts-imagine being a “market expert” whose only experience was watching numbers go up for over a decade!

This beast of a bull run survived the European debt crisis, trade wars, Brexit panic, and countless “this time it’s different” predictions. It created a generation of investors who thought “buy the dip” was a divine commandment and that stonks only go up.

The party finally ended when a bat in China reminded everyone that sometimes external events can crash markets faster than you can say “diamond hands.” But hey, for 11 glorious years, being bearish was about as profitable as opening an ice cream shop in Antarctica!

Trade well,
T2 Markets

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