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| Pre-Market Brief | Friday, October 16, 2026 |
| SPY and QQQ are sitting right on their pivots this morning and NVDA is just under its own, so the three are not lined up. Thursday split the same way: NVDA held the bearish read while SPY and QQQ reclaimed theirs. |
| Levels snapshot (4:10 AM ET) |
| Ticker |
Spot |
Pivot |
Read |
| SPY |
773.60 |
773.50 |
Above by 0.10 |
| QQQ |
729.65 |
729.50 |
Above by 0.15 |
| NVDA |
218.70 |
219.00 |
Below by 0.30 |
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| Session Bias: No Trade before the 8:30 AM ET data, then Need Confirmation. The overall lean is Chop 40% / Bear 35% / Bull 25% with LOW conviction. These are subjective weights, not measured probabilities. |
| What’s driving it: Two data prints land before the open, import and export prices at 8:30 AM ET and industrial production at 9:15 AM ET. It is also monthly options expiration, and several regional banks report. Rates are flat into the data, but AI financing worries are still weighing on the Nasdaq-100 names even after TSMC’s record quarter. Pre-market marks are not closes, and any mixed result on 15-minute closes is a split market, which means waiting. |
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