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MARKET SAVANT
PRE-MARKET BRIEFING · 2026-07-13 · context & synthesis, not a signal
MIXED / NEUTRAL
MIXED REGIMES · no scheduled index catalyst
0/5 boards CHOP · 0/5 trending
The Setup
Price data on every tracked instrument is stale — the bars lag the briefing date and all levels are suppressed. With no trustworthy references, no conditional map can be drawn today: any acceptance-above or rejection-at framing would rest on prices that no longer describe the market, so none is offered. The setup is procedural rather than technical: refresh the bars, rebuild the level map, and only then read acceptance, rejection, holds, or loses against freshly confirmed references. Until that refresh lands, treat the tape as unmapped and let the event calendar — the Fed's internal division, early earnings, and Iran headlines — define the session's context rather than any stale level.
NQ
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OPTIONS / POSITIONING ▸
Exp. move (QQQ)± 6.495 · 0.90%
Exp. move 1w± 17.25 · 2.38%
Gamma flip500.031
Net GEX (est.)$-151m · net short gamma (est.)
Call gamma wall722
Put gamma wall722
Max pain720
P/C (OI)2.378
P/C (vol)1.0872
Heaviest call OI722 · 750 · 720 · 725
Heaviest put OI495 · 685 · 560 · 710
Retail GEX estimate from QQQ ETF options as a proxy for NQ; dealer short-call/long-put sign assumption; QQQ ≠ index ≠ future — positioning map, not a measured dealer book.
ES
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OPTIONS / POSITIONING ▸
Exp. move (SPY)± 3.275 · 0.43%
Exp. move 1w± 9.02 · 1.19%
Gamma flip585.022
Net GEX (est.)$-1.37bn · net short gamma (est.)
Call gamma wall755
Put gamma wall752
Max pain750
P/C (OI)0.6184
P/C (vol)1.0972
Heaviest call OI777 · 778 · 779 · 759
Heaviest put OI740 · 735 · 750 · 745
Retail GEX estimate from SPY ETF options as a proxy for ES; dealer short-call/long-put sign assumption; SPY ≠ index ≠ future — positioning map, not a measured dealer book.
YM
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OPTIONS / POSITIONING ▸
Exp. move (DIA)± 6.005 · 1.14%
Exp. move 1w± 8.85 · 1.68%
Gamma flip520.408
Net GEX (est.)$-154m · net short gamma (est.)
Call gamma wall530
Put gamma wall520
Max pain520
P/C (OI)0.7166
P/C (vol)1.0875
Heaviest call OI535 · 530 · 537 · 550
Heaviest put OI475 · 480 · 490 · 520
Retail GEX estimate from DIA ETF options as a proxy for YM; dealer short-call/long-put sign assumption; DIA ≠ index ≠ future — positioning map, not a measured dealer book.
RTY
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OPTIONS / POSITIONING ▸
Exp. move (IWM)± 2.185 · 0.74%
Exp. move 1w± 5.735 · 1.94%
Gamma flip210.652
Net GEX (est.)$83m · net long gamma (est.)
Call gamma wall297
Put gamma wall294
Max pain298
P/C (OI)1.9383
P/C (vol)0.924
Heaviest call OI300 · 299 · 298 · 297
Heaviest put OI285 · 294 · 299 · 295
Retail GEX estimate from IWM ETF options as a proxy for RTY; dealer short-call/long-put sign assumption; IWM ≠ index ≠ future — positioning map, not a measured dealer book.
GC
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OPTIONS / POSITIONING ▸
Exp. move (GLD)± 3.495 · 0.93%
Exp. move 1w± 9.6 · 2.55%
Gamma flip349.07
Net GEX (est.)$-1m · net short gamma (est.)
Call gamma wall375
Put gamma wall375
Max pain375
P/C (OI)0.7792
P/C (vol)1.1223
Heaviest call OI500 · 392 · 383 · 384
Heaviest put OI350 · 341 · 375 · 370
Retail GEX estimate from GLD ETF options as a proxy for GC; dealer short-call/long-put sign assumption; GLD ≠ index ≠ future — positioning map, not a measured dealer book.
Congressional Trading
428 disclosures · 50d
STOCK Act disclosures · House, Senate
Net flow (est.)
-$1.51M
net selling (est.)
Purchases
246
$8.95M est.
Sales
181
$10.47M est.
Index-relevant net
-$364K
9 buys · 15 sells
Top tickers by disclosures
HUBB
10 filings · 10B/0S
$87K
AAPL
7 filings · 3B/4S
-$33K
LPLA
6 filings · 6B/0S
$48K
BEP
5 filings · 5B/0S
$65K
BIIB
5 filings · 4B/1S
$59K
ENTG
5 filings · 5B/0S
$40K
TDG
5 filings · 5B/0S
$40K
NVDA
4 filings · 0B/4S
-$391K
Recent notable disclosures
Sheldon Whitehouse
· SALE NVDA
Sheldon Whitehouse
· SALE NVDA
Tim Moore
· PURCHASE T
Daniel Meuser
· PURCHASE SPCX
Sheldon Whitehouse
· SALE AAPL
Sheldon Whitehouse
· SALE AAPL
Sheldon Whitehouse
· SALE NVDA
Sheldon Whitehouse
· PURCHASE COHR
Sheldon Whitehouse
· SALE ORCL
Josh Gottheimer
· SALE ADC
Parsed STOCK Act disclosures (House + Senate), House, Senate chamber(s) with data in the last 50d. Disclosures LAG the actual trade by up to ~45 days (reporting window) — this is a map of what was FILED, not live positioning. Amount ranges are DISCLOSURE BUCKETS; all notional figures are midpoint ESTIMATES, not exact dollars. Descriptive only — no directional inference.
Catalyst Timeline
0 windows(nothing scheduled)
Material Filings
- AMZN 8-K (items 8.01, 9.01) — filed Jul 09
Overnight Digest
- Fed minutes expose deep divide over interest-rate outlook [Yahoo]
- Ford’s Q2 2026 Earnings: What to Expect [Yahoo]
- Stocks Climb on Strength in Chipmakers [Yahoo]
- What to Expect From Cigna's Next Quarterly Earnings Report [Yahoo]
- With Iran Tensions Heating Up Again, Chevron Stock Looks Enticing [Yahoo]
Sentiment Read
The overnight mood is mixed and headline-driven. Fed minutes revealed a deep divide on the interest-rate outlook, keeping policy uncertainty front and center. Strength in chipmakers has been the equity tape's carrying theme, while renewed Iran tensions keep a geopolitical risk conversation alive around energy and gold. Earnings season is warming up, with Ford and Cigna previews circulating, and Amazon lodged a material filing. On the macro dashboard, the twos-tens curve flag reads positive and financial conditions read loose per the NFCI flag — so the market's attention sits on policy division and geopolitics rather than on a funding or conditions story.
Data quality notes
- ⚠ PRICE DATA STALE: ES bars as-of 2026-03-26, briefing 2026-07-13 — levels suppressed, do not trade off them.
- ⚠ PRICE DATA STALE: GC bars as-of 2026-04-09, briefing 2026-07-13 — levels suppressed, do not trade off them.
- ⚠ PRICE DATA STALE: NQ bars as-of 2026-06-04, briefing 2026-07-13 — levels suppressed, do not trade off them.
- ⚠ PRICE DATA STALE: RTY bars as-of 2026-03-26, briefing 2026-07-13 — levels suppressed, do not trade off them.
- ⚠ PRICE DATA STALE: YM bars as-of 2026-03-26, briefing 2026-07-13 — levels suppressed, do not trade off them.