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Flow Maps Pro
Institutional Macro & Order Flow Research
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08/17/2026 · Pre-Market
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Today's Session Bias
Neutral, Confirmation-Contingent, Conditional Bullish Lean (~40%)
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All three names open above their newly reset pivots after Friday’s partial invalidation never fully resolved – SPY and QQQ broke their prior pivots and stayed broken; NVDA was the only one that held. QQQ has since pulled $2 clear of its own pivot pre-market, the widest cushion of the three. Today’s US calendar is unusually light, and that’s exactly why it’s not a “quiet” session.
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Pivot |
Spot |
| SPY |
$777.00 |
$777.67 (+$0.67) |
| QQQ |
$733.00 |
$735.00 (+$2.00) |
| NVDA |
$225.00 |
$225.81 (+$0.81) |
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What’s driving it: Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed from 31 ships the prior weekend to 5 Saturday to zero Sunday, and a fragile US-Iran ceasefire is set to expire today with talks stalled – a fresh, same-day risk layered directly on top of that disruption. Oil is already up more than 5% on the week. Today’s only US print is Canada’s July CPI at 8:30 AM ET, primarily CAD-sensitive. Friday’s soft retail sales and weak Michigan sentiment have eased both nominal and real yields into the open, and the dollar remains under pressure – a tailwind for the bull case if it holds, though VIX has ticked up modestly rather than continuing to ease. Leveraged funds remain net short both S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures per the latest COT report, with the Nasdaq side the more extreme of the two.
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This is the headline read. Paid subscribers also get the full positioning breakdown, options-flow concentration blocks, the complete trade framework – now with verified long and short R:R math on every structure – and the Thesis Tree behind today’s lean.
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— Nate
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