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Morning Market Notes 08-06-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Tech getting sold premarket. QQQ down 0.62% while SPY holds green up 0.10% and the Dow keeps printing record closes. VIX is sitting at 16, barely bid even with tech red. No real reach for protection yet. Same story all week: AI names

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Morning Market Notes 08-05-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Green again this morning. SPY up 0.48% premarket after another record close, DIA up 0.44%, IWM up 0.28%, QQQ up 0.19% and lagging a touch. VIX is 16.83 and actually bid, up 2% on a green tape. The grind higher

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Morning Market Notes 08-04-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Green across the board again. The tape wants higher: DIA up 1.30% leading premarket for the second straight day, QQQ up 1.10%, SPY up 0.36%, IWM up 0.50%. VIX is 15.62 and bleeding lower, and the S&P is

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Morning Market Notes 08-03-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Risk-on open to kick off August. Everything is green premarket. DIA up 1.12% leading the tape, IWM up 0.88%, SPY up 0.51%, QQQ dragging at 0.17%. VIX is sitting at 16 and not backing off on a green tape, protection

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Morning Market Notes 07-31-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Second green morning in a row to close out July. This is your EOM sesh. QQQ is up 0.84% premarket and pressing right into the 690 Call Wall. SPY up 0.21%. VIX parked at 17 after getting smoked yesterday. The driver is the

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Morning Market Notes 07-30-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ The Fed Day dip didn't even survive the night. QQQ is up 2% premarket, SPY up 0.64%, and VIX just got smoked, down 7.65% to 19. The Fed held like everyone expected, but three members dissented in favor of a hike

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Morning Market Notes 07-29-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ It's FOMC day. Iran resumed strikes on US forces overnight, crude ripped more than 3%, and the tape barely blinked. SPY and QQQ are flat premarket while the Dow lags, off 0.60%. VIX is bid at 18.6 but nobody is reaching

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Morning Market Notes 07-28-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Split tape this morning. Dow futures are up almost 1% on blowout DJI names' earnings while QQQ bleeds 0.74% premarket and is already trading under the 680 Put Wall. Semis are the drag again, the chip complex is down another 3% and pulling

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Morning Market Notes 07-27-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Full risk-on reversal this morning. The US and Iran hit pause on the Red Sea attacks over the weekend and crude got smoked, Brent down 13% and back in the mid-80s after last week's run through $100. Everything the oil spike

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Morning Market Notes 07-24-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Yesterday's flush closed ugly. SPX bled 1.21% and the Nasdaq dropped over 2% after oil punched through $100 on the Red Sea tanker attacks and the AI capex sticker shock out of megacap earnings spooked the growth trade. This morning the tape

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Morning Market Notes 07-23-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Tech is getting smoked again premarket. QQQ down 1.27% and trading under the 700 Put Wall, SPY off 0.92% and sitting right on its own Put Wall at 740. VIX bid up almost 14% to 19. Big Tech earnings did the damage overnight.

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Morning Market Notes 07-22-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Tech is the weak spot premarket. QQQ off 0.90% and trading under the 705 key level while SPY hangs in better, down 0.31%. VIX is bid near 3% and oil is doing the damage. Brent punched through $92 overnight after another round of

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Morning Market Notes 07-21-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Tech is doing the heavy lifting premarket. QQQ up 1.35% and already trading through the 700 Call Wall, SPY up 0.41%, VIX crushed 4% to the high 17s. Semis are the story again, the memory complex ripped overnight and Korea's chip-

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Morning Market Notes 07-20-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Friday's washout is getting faded. QQQ up 0.96% premarket at 702, back above 700 after spending Friday trading under it. SPY up 0.45%, VIX crushed 3.7% back to 18, but still high. All this with the US and Iran trading

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Morning Market Notes 07-17-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Tech is getting smoked again premarket. QQQ down 1.86% and already trading under the 700 Put Wall, SPY off 0.91%, VIX bid up 11% into the mid 18s. Yesterday's chip complex de-risking turned into a full washout overnight as the

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Morning Market Notes 07-16-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ VIX bid up almost 5% into the mid 16s. Yesterday's tape looked fine on the surface, but the chip complex was getting sold into strength all session, and that de-risking is spreading this morning. The setup is simple: both indices are pressing

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Morning Market Notes 07-15-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ The VIX is bleeding again, down 2% into the low 16s. PPI was the morning test, consensus wanted the monthly print negative after last month's hot 1.1%, and the first reaction off the 8:30 release isn't scaring anyone. The

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Morning Market Notes 07-14-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ CPI morning and the tape already picked a side. QQQ is up 1.3% premarket and trading through its 720 Call Wall, SPY is up 0.4% sitting on top of the 750 Call Wall, and VIX is getting crushed, down 3.4% into the

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Morning Market Notes 07-10-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Two straight up days and the tape's catching its breath. SPY flat premarket, QQQ off 0.35%, VIX asleep under 16. The story this morning is the year's biggest chip IPO hitting the Nasdaq, priced at a premium into what one

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Morning Market Notes 07-09-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ The ceasefire is officially dead. Fresh US strikes on Iran overnight, Tehran answering at Gulf targets, crude bid again, but the tape doesn't care. The AI trade is carrying risk for a second straight day: QQQ up 0.90% premarket with semis bid

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Morning Market Notes 07-08-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ The Iran ceasefire is crumbling and the tape knows it. Trump called it off overnight as fresh strikes started flying, crude ripped 6%, and the VIX is bid up 8% pushing 17.5. Everything's red premarket. QQQ off 0.75%, SPY down 0.

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Morning Market Notes 07-07-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ The semis that carried yesterday's rip are getting sold. An overnight chip selloff in Asia has QQQ down 0.93% premarket, creating a gap at 718.45 and sitting right on its 715 Put Wall. It's rotation, not risk-off. The

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Morning Market Notes 07-06-26

Market Calendar $SPX & $QQQ Back from the long weekend and tech is ripping. QQQ up 1.26% premarket and already trading through the 715 Call Wall. Semis doing the heavy lifting after leading last week's run. SPY up 0.45% at 748, tucked right under its own

0dthero

Don't be the "I was gonna" person

Simple math this morning. Today: first month of 0DTHERO = $17.76. Tomorrow: first month of 0DTHERO = $199. The difference: one click before midnight. Everything else is the same: the flow alerts, the AI Dashboard on SPX/SPY/QQQ/MAG7/S&P-E, the delta notional charts, the Discord, the

0dthero

250 years of freedom. What are YOU declaring independence from?

Happy 4th. 250 years since a bunch of guys decided they were done being told what to do. Fitting day to ask: what are you declaring independence from? Because I talk to traders every day who are still ruled by: * Guessing at key levels and praying * FOMO entries three candles