VIP morning bulletin — Friday, October 9, 2026

Focus: key index levels and pre-market earnings movers.

Index checkpoints (pre-market into the open)

• SPX / ES: Mark overnight high/low, prior day high/low, and VWAP. Trade only if price is holding or rejecting those levels with volume, not on the first poke.

• NDX / NQ: Same structure. Watch the overnight range midpoint. If we gap through it, wait for the first 15-minute reclaim or fail before sizing up.

• RUT / IWM: Treat it as a confirmation tape. If SPX/NDX are clean and IWM is lagging, stay smaller until it confirms.

Pre-market earnings movers

• Build a short list of names with actual prints and a clear gap vs. the prior close.

• For each ticker: pre-market high/low, gap %, first 5-minute opening range, and whether it is holding VWAP.

• No chasing the first spike. Either fade an exhausted extension back to VWAP/opening range, or take continuation only after a hold-and-go of that range.

Discipline

• Max 2–3 A-setups. If the first two are scratches, you are done for the morning.

• Risk is defined before entry. If the invalidation is hit, you are out. No averaging losers.

• Size down into the open. Scale only after the first 15 minutes prove the thesis.

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