Pre-market Scan
Saturday 01 August, 18:29

45 alerts across 5 steps.

Today is Saturday. Every price below is the Friday 2026-07-31 close, pulled live this session from Yahoo Finance. No new session has traded since the last scan.

Regime Flip Gate

REGIME FLIP GATE OPEN. All three triggers met.

SPY 747.03, 200 DMA 700.39, 6.7% above. Met. VIX 15.99. Met. QQQ 687.99, 200 DMA 645.04, 6.7% above. Met.

Market journal row not written. A 2026-07-31 row already exists in market_journal carrying these exact values (spy 747.03, qqq 687.99, vix 15.99). Writing an 08-01 row would double-log Friday's close against a non-trading date.

Open Ideas

PSTG (now NYSE P) trigger fired. Price closed 77.17 on 7/31, up 2.81% on the day, through the $76 reclaim level named in open-ideas.md. The intended vehicle on that trigger is a long call, strike and expiry to be picked off the live chain. Volume confirmation against the 1.5x average condition was not checked in this scan.

MARA closed 11.32. The sub-$10 re-entry trigger has not fired, though it traded 10.05 on 7/29.

Economic Calendar

FinViz could not be pulled this scan. Both calendar.ashx and /calendar/economic returned navigation shell only, no event data, so the entries below come from intel/economic-calendar.md as verified 2026-07-31, one day stale.

SYM fiscal Q3 earnings Wednesday 2026-08-05 after the close. Held 100 shares with a covered call overlay expiring two days later.

July nonfarm payrolls Friday 2026-08-07 at 8:30am ET.

VST Q2 earnings Friday 2026-08-07 pre-market, and TTWO fiscal Q1 the same day. Both are held.

July CPI Wednesday 2026-08-12 at 8:30am ET, at the far edge of the window.

Congressional and Executive Trades

No roster-matched equity trades to surface.

Senate, last 7 days, one PTR. David McCormick (R-PA), Senate Energy and Natural Resources, filed 07/29 with 14 transactions. All are Pennsylvania municipal bonds and GS structured notes linked to MSCI EAFE. No equity tickers, nothing that maps to his committee sectors.

House coverage is incomplete this scan. intel/2026FD.xml carries filing metadata only, no tickers. Nine PTRs landed in the window, of which one filer is on the roster, Pete Sessions (R-TX17), Congressional Semiconductor Caucus co-chair, filed 07/24. The clerk PDF for that filing returned HTTP 403, so the traded assets could not be read. Worth a manual pull in the live session.

TARGETS Price Check

targets-dispositions.md has no active dispositions, so nothing was suppressed. Seventeen names sit within 5% of a Fibonacci level.

Ticker Price Nearest Fib Level Distance
LMT 582.74 38.2% 584.32 -0.3%
AXP 336.25 50% 336.82 -0.2%
NEE 86.92 38.2% 86.70 +0.3%
BA 216.14 50% 215.56 +0.3%
INTC 90.20 38.2% 89.27 +1.0%
RH 165.52 61.8% 163.87 +1.0%
COST 951.89 61.8% 940.49 +1.2%
NVDA 200.75 38.2% 197.90 +1.4%
WFC 86.45 38.2% 87.89 -1.6%
MSFT 464.72 50% 455.87 +1.9%
HD 331.96 61.8% 341.67 -2.8%
WYNN 99.31 61.8% 102.53 -3.1%
MA 573.10 38.2% 555.45 +3.2%
TTWO 242.92 38.2% 235.31 +3.2%
PEP 139.56 61.8% 144.36 -3.3%
BRK.B 511.54 38.2% 493.30 +3.7%
AVGO 389.28 38.2% 371.07 +4.9%

COST, AXP and BA each sit within 5% of all three of their levels, so the whole retracement band is in play on those names.

WATCHLIST Active Swing

Seven names changed status materially against the 2026-07-28 scan.

P (formerly PSTG) 77.17. Was a broken bearish stack at 68.69. Price is now above all three EMAs (10 at 74.02, 20 at 74.10, 50 at 74.20) but the EMAs themselves are still stacked downward, so alignment is forming, not confirmed. This is the same $76 reclaim flagged in Open Ideas.

HUBS 237.36. Full bullish alignment now confirmed, price above EMA10 226.70 above EMA20 218.01 above EMA50 212.34. The fast-trigger EMA10 over EMA20 cross the file was waiting on has happened.

OXY 57.07. Formed bullish alignment, price above EMA10 55.77 above EMA20 55.01 above EMA50 54.82. Was mixed on 7/28.

WMT 111.20. Flipped the other way. Was bullish on 7/28 at 115.49, now a full bearish stack below EMA10 111.78, EMA20 112.54 and EMA50 115.80. The $116 trigger from open-ideas.md moved further away, not closer.

VZ 46.81. Lost the full bullish stack it had on 7/28. Price is above EMA10 45.93 and EMA20 45.22, but EMA20 has crossed below EMA50 45.37.

T 23.25. Was a confirmed reversal at 25.22 on 7/28, now below EMA10 23.29 and EMA50 23.12. Alignment broken.

PFE 25.01. First rescan since 2026-06-01. Price is above EMA10 24.90 and EMA20 24.83 but still under EMA50 25.11. Moved from below support to neutral.

DG, BMY, KMI, NOK and BEAM are unchanged from their 7/28 status and are not flagged.

AI Infrastructure and Dip Radar

Eleven names fired. SPY closed green on 7/31, up 0.72%, so no fresh-10-day-low-on-red-tape triggers qualified this scan.

Ticker Price Trigger Level
MTZ 263.10 overreaction dip, down 18.91% on the day prior close 324.44
TT 454.95 50% fib and round number fib 453.69, +0.3%; 450, +1.1%
EME 797.43 50% fib and round number fib 808.12, -1.3%; 800, -0.3%
SPXC 219.62 50% fib 216.59, +1.4%
CMI 634.20 50% fib 619.64, +2.4%
DLR 188.52 50% fib 184.18, +2.4%
MOD 201.06 round number 200, +0.5%
GEV 990.29 round number 1000, -1.0%
VST 148.19 round number 150, -1.2%
FIX 1729.69 round number 1750, -1.2%
GNRC 197.11 round number 200, -1.4%

MTZ is the standout and the move is real, not a split or a dividend. Yahoo shows no corporate action and volume was 3.95M against roughly 1.2M on a normal day. The name has been violent all week, down 8.0% on 7/29, up 12.9% on 7/30, then down 18.9% on 7/31.

Portfolio

Four positions flagged out of nine.

AMZN 271.58, up 15.32% on the day and up 15.3% from the 235.50 reference carried in its notes. That clears the 5% move threshold by a wide margin. The 275 to 278 exit zone named in the position notes is now 1.3% away.

SYM 43.05. Open short 45 call expiring 2026-08-07, inside five trading days, with the fiscal Q3 print landing 8/5 after the close, inside that same expiry.

VST 148.19. True cost basis 149.06, so the position is 0.6% under breakeven.

TTWO 242.92. True cost basis 237.37, so the position is 2.3% over breakeven.

IREN, META, NFLX, NLR and V did not cross any threshold.