Nasdaq-100 and gold futures · published from Connecticut, United States
Zonetta Trading — supply and demand zones, scored 0–7
A zone gets a grade before I risk anything on it. The grade decides whether I take it — not the feeling I have while the candle is forming.
Get the free Zone Score checklist Today’s levels for NQ and gold →
Schematic · one supply zone, one demand zone, one held level
Diagram only · not a recorded session, not live · no instrument, no price, no outcome claimed
01 / What this is
Three lines, so you can leave early if it is not for you
I trade from Connecticut, on New York hours — futures today, mainly Nasdaq-100 and gold, after years in stocks, options, spot forex and crypto — and I have studied supply and demand since 2013. I am not a fund manager, not a broker and not a licensed adviser.
This site publishes the work I already do every morning: the option-pressure levels for both instruments, the zones I have marked, the grade each zone carries, and a free two-page checklist so you can grade your own.
And it publishes what happened afterwards, including the zones that did not hold, which is the part everybody else leaves out.
- No signals. I will never tell you to buy or sell anything, on any instrument, at any time.
- No returns, no win rates, no account curves, no backtest figures — not here, not in a video, not on a thumbnail.
- No bare numbers. Every distance names its instrument and its tick size, because a number without those is not information.
02 / Every weekday morning
The levels, before the New York open
08:00 ET
every weekday
Before the cash open I mark the price levels where the option market puts the most pressure on the desks that have to hedge — the wall above, the wall below, and the point where dealer hedging stops damping the move and starts amplifying it. Then I mark the supply and demand zones on the higher timeframe and carry them down to the one I execute on.
All of it goes on the levels page, free, with no email required. It is the one page here that changes every day, and it is the reason to come back tomorrow rather than the reason to buy anything.
These levels are context, not entries. They tell you where a move is likely to meet resistance from someone who has no opinion and no choice — they do not tell you to take a trade, and I never will.
What is published each weekday, and in what unit
| Instrument | Published before the open | Minimum price increment |
|---|---|---|
| Nasdaq-100 futures CME · NQ and MNQ | Option-pressure levels | 0.25index points per tick |
| Gold futures COMEX · GC | Option-pressure levels | 0.10US dollars per troy ounce, per tick |
| Spot foreign exchange Zones only | The same zone rules, carried across | Variesby pair and by broker quote |
See today’s levels → What a call wall and a gamma flip actually are → The two-minute market prep →
03 / The one thing I ask for
The free Zone Score checklist
Every zone I publish carries a grade out of seven. Below is how that output is shown — here, in the videos, and on the end card. Filled segments, an unfilled remainder, and a number.
6 / 7
Example output
Four things decide the grade, and they have plain names: strength, time, freshness, and trend and location. The checklist walks you through them in that order, on two pages, so you can grade a zone on your own chart in about ten seconds and then decide.
How the grade is computed is not published on this site and will not be. You get the criteria and you get the outcome; the arithmetic between them stays on my machine.
A high grade is not a prediction and it is not a promise. A well-graded zone can fail, and when one of mine does, that goes on the levels page next to the ones that worked.
Get the free Zone Score checklist What is on it →
Two pages. Free. Your address is used to send you the checklist, and occasionally a short note when something new is published. No sequence, no upsell, and it is never sold or shared.
04 / The method
Four beats, and then the whole thing
What a zone is
Not a line drawn after the fact to explain a move you already missed. A zone is the place a move began: two edges, marked before price gets back there, with the decision already made about what happens if it arrives.
Where it comes from
From an imbalance. Price sat still, then left in a hurry, and the orders that could not be filled in the hurry are still sitting where it left from. That origin is the zone; everything else is decoration.
Why most of them fail
Because most zones are drawn onto the chart rather than found on it, and because a zone price has already come back to is not the same object as one that has never been touched. Most of what is taught treats those two as equal. They are not.
What grading changes
It moves the decision earlier. Once a zone carries a number, the argument stops being do I like this and starts being does this clear the bar I set before I was in the market. On most mornings the honest answer is no, and doing nothing is the process working rather than the process failing.
That bar is a skill rather than a setting on an indicator, and how I learned to grade a zone in the first place is now written out in order, module by module.
Schematic · the failure case, which is the one nobody publishes
Diagram only · no instrument, no price, no trade, no outcome claimed
2 / 7
Example output · a zone graded this low is one I write down and leave alone
05 / Free to watch right now
There is already a back catalogue
None of the following costs anything, none of it is gated, and none of it needs an email address. It exists because I was making it before there was a site to put it on.
- The candlestick course
- A free course in six parts, narrated, full-screen diagrams, no talking head — because you cannot read a zone until you can read the candles inside it. It is finished, and it ends where the candles meet supply and demand. Watch the playlist.
- The market prep
- About two minutes, published before the New York open, built on that morning’s real levels and that morning’s zone. No opinions about where the market is going. Listen to an episode.
06 / The shelf
What I have built, and what state it is honestly in
Everything below started as something I needed on my own charts and could not buy. Nothing on this shelf is for sale today. No price has ever been published for any of it, and on the day one of them can actually be bought, this page will say so and say exactly where.
- Zone Score MTF
- Draws supply and demand zones from two timeframes on one chart and puts a grade on every zone, so you can tell at a glance which one deserves an order and which one merely exists. Two editions: one paired for swing and intraday, one paired for a single session. For TradingView. Built, not released
- Zone Trader for MetaTrader 5
- The same grading, wired to execution. The semi-automatic version puts a button beside every zone that qualifies and waits for your click after showing you the exact risk; the automatic version places and manages the order itself and risks the same fixed fraction on every one. Listing pending
- GEX Levels
- Plots the option-pressure levels straight onto your Nasdaq-100 or gold chart and refreshes them by itself, with a corner panel telling you which hedging regime the market is in right now. For TradingView and MetaTrader 5. In daily use
- Candlestick Code
- Marks the candlestick formations worth marking and calculates the entry, the stop and the target for each one — and prints the reason a setup was refused instead of quietly hiding it. Adapts to each instrument’s minimum price increment. For TradingView and MetaTrader 5. Built, not released
- Zonetta Trading Fibonacci
- Finds the live swing and re-anchors as it extends, instead of freezing on a swing that stopped being relevant an hour ago, with the deep entry box drawn where the reversal actually starts. For TradingView and MetaTrader 5. In testing
07 / Who is writing this
A working trader in Connecticut
My name is Adriano Ferreira. I live and work in Connecticut, on New York hours, and today I trade futures — mainly the Nasdaq-100 contracts and gold, after years in stocks, options, spot forex and crypto — on MetaTrader 5, Tradovate, NinjaTrader or TradeStation — the method does not change with the platform — with the analysis done on TradingView.
I have studied supply and demand since 2013 — the framework that came off the CME floor and was taught as a set of factors you grade a zone against before you risk anything on it. Everything here comes out of that tradition and out of the years I have spent studying it.
I built the tools first and the site second, in that order, and I would still be running all of it if nobody ever read a word of this.
08 / Not yet
Two things that do not exist yet
Zone AI
Send it a chart and it finds the zones, grades each one, and then explains the grade criterion by criterion — including where the idea would be wrong. The specification is written and approved; none of it is built. There is no date and there will not be one until there is something you can actually use.
The full method course
My own method taught end to end, rather than the generic version of it that circulates. It is finished and it is for sale: seven modules, thirty-nine lessons, just under seven hours, with the drills and the answer keys. It does not include the indicator — that is a separate product and is priced separately.
When either becomes real, the people who took the free checklist hear about it first. That is the only list I keep, and it is the same one line below.