This week traded a $14.55 SPY range, a $17.20 QQQ range, and a $19.66 NVDA range — NVDA's wider band reflected a multi-session advance from Tuesday's weekly low through Friday's payroll-day high. Next week flips the calendar entirely: markets are closed Monday for Labor Day, Tuesday and Wednesday carry no major scheduled releases, and the real risk is backloaded to Thursday's ECB decision and U.S. producer inflation, followed immediately by Friday's CPI — the week's single most important event for SPY, QQQ, NVDA, Treasury yields, and the dollar.
| Ticker | Weekly Range | Width |
| SPY | $759.48 – $774.03 | $14.55 |
| QQQ | $704.66 – $721.86 | $17.20 |
| NVDA | $215.10 – $234.76 | $19.66 |
Week Grade: 1 CONFIRMED · 3 CONFIRMED PARTIAL · 1 INVALIDATED (out of 5 graded sessions). NVDA produced the most decisive divergent-leg outcomes of the week, while SPY and QQQ mostly traded cleaner reads.
What's driving next week: Highest-risk windows are Thursday 8:15 AM ET (ECB decision), Thursday 8:30 AM ET (U.S. PPI), and Friday 8:30 AM ET (U.S. CPI). Because Tuesday and Wednesday are calendar-quiet, positioning is likely to build ahead of Thursday and Friday rather than resolve early. A hotter CPI print favors higher yields and a firmer dollar, with QQQ and NVDA facing the most pressure; a softer print, with yields and the dollar falling together, would offer the cleaner bullish setup.
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— Nate