Morning Market Notes 08-27-26

Market Calendar

$SPX & $QQQ

The AI trade got its green light last night. QQQ up 0.87% premarket and already trading through the 715 Call Wall. SPY up 0.29%. VIX down to 15 with vol sellers stepping right back in. Yesterday's nervous tape is gone.

This is all about the AI earnings print the whole month was pointing at, and it delivered. Clean beat, but the guide was the real story, demand running way ahead of supply into next year. Chips are flying premarket, software caught a bid off its own earnings wave, and the gamma picture reset overnight, the walls that pinned tight into the event released and moved higher. The tell today is whether QQQ holds above that 715 wall after the open. Acceptance above it and this grinds higher all session, rejection and we pin right back to the wall.

Macro day is quiet after the fireworks: Jobless Claims and the goods trade balance at 8:30, then Kansas City Fed at 11.

Let's have a sesh.

This old Soldier is at $82K and counting

You read the morning analysis. Blu reads the same notes, then he watches the real-time flow confirm the setups and stacks payouts toward a $100K month. That's the difference between reading about the move and being in it.