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Monday, August 24, 2026 | Pre-Market Brief
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SPY, QQQ, and NVDA are all trading below their reset pivots this morning — the whole complex on the same side of the line at once, which hasn’t been the setup all week. QQQ has the furthest to climb back, sitting just above its own support level.
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| Ticker |
Spot |
Pivot |
Bias |
| SPY |
$763.77 |
$764.00 |
$0.23 below (closest) |
| QQQ |
$707.23 |
$711.00 |
$3.77 below (widest gap) |
| NVDA |
$214.69 |
$216.00 |
$1.31 below (middle) |
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Session Bias: Neutral-to-Cautiously Bullish (~45%), Confirmation-Contingent. All three names need to reclaim pivot together — not just one or two — before this turns into anything but a decision-point session.
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The session's real catalyst hasn’t landed yet: Treasury Secretary Bessent's 2:00 PM ET press conference, billed by the wires as the “greatest financial offensive” against Iran. Oil is already pushing higher into it (WTI back to $88.15), and Iran has separately warned it could seize vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Layer on U.S.–Canada trade talks collapsing overnight, and there's more headline risk stacked into today than the quiet economic calendar suggests.
The offsetting good news: breadth genuinely improved (4 of 6 measures higher), VIX is still running below Friday's close, and QQQ's leveraged-fund short base has been meaningfully reduced week-over-week — less short-covering fuel than last week, but less crowding risk too.
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