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SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, March 5, 2026 9:00 am Eastern  – During the regular session yesterday, the SPY got up to a high of 687.09. They didn’t make it to a level we had on the board at 687.85. In the overnight session, however, that level was hit (price came within 2 cents of

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, March 4, 2026 9:11 am Eastern  – What we are looking at in this morning’s premarket activity, is the bulls holding on to the momentum they got yesterday as they bounced from the zone down at 675.00 to 672.00. If the bulls were going to defend that zone yesterday, there

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, March 3, 2026 9:20 am Eastern  – It’s showtime for the bulls. During the night, they let the futures pull price down to the zone that we’ve been talking about. Right now – at this moment, at least, it looks like the bearish consolidation pattern is playing out as we

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, March 2, 2026 9:01 am Eastern  – Things could get interesting today – and this week. If you haven’t already reviewed the Weekly Recap video on the T&T YouTube channel, you might want to check that out. It was posted last night. We talked about some big picture scenarios – that while

SPY Levels & Game PlanFriday, February 27, 2026 8:52 am Eastern  – Review yesterday’s Game Plan and post-market analysis to understand better why price dropped yesterday. The quick version is that the trendline was the pivot point and price got under the bear axis level (which was 693.15) and quickly started accumulating closes of significance under it.

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, February 26, 2026 9:20 am Eastern  – Same story as yesterday – the bulls keep grinding higher. But this time, the market will open with price sitting right at a trendline that could cause some friction and get the bears to come out to defend. The trendline starts at about

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, February 25, 2026 9:28 am Eastern  – The bulls are working hard to grind price higher. They got price above some key areas in the premarket session this morning. As we discussed in yesterday’s Game Plan, price can go anywhere when they’re in the middle of such a large, long-term

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, February 24, 2026 9:13 am Eastern  – In yesterday’s Game Plan, we talked about how when price is in the middle of stuff with no clear trend defined, price can go either direction at any time. We’ve been witnessing this for several months. We can still drill down and identify

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, February 23, 2026 9:11 am Eastern  – We’re entering the last week of February, so where they close on Friday this week could be important. It will be the weekly and monthly close. The SPY has been going sideways (in the big picture) long enough that either a break out

SPY Levels & Game PlanFriday, February 20, 2026 9:28 am Eastern  – The levels for yesterday continued to provide support and resistance overnight as price tried to break out above the highs made during the regular session, only to be pushed back down again. And there were still reactions at the levels from yesterday that

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, February 19, 2026 Note: the screenshot above does show the levels for 2/19/2026, as identified before the opening bell, but the vertical line that delineates the market close time at 4:00 pm Eastern was not advanced to the end of the prior day (2/18/2026) per usual. The price action you

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, February 18, 2026 9:09 am Eastern  –  The bulls are keeping price above yesterday’s bear axis and trying to stay out of the danger zone (which is down at the 675 level and below). Remember the bull axis from yesterday? It was 686.18. Look what price did in the premarket

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, February 17, 2026 9:10 am Eastern  –  We’ve already had a bounce from the first line in the sand for the bulls. 677.32 is the bear axis for today. If price gets below that level, the door is open for that zone we talked about in last week’s recap – see

SPY Levels & Game PlanFriday, February 13, 2026 9:10 am Eastern  –  Ok, so whether it was related or not, the recent drop in the DJT as we discussed beforehand, did have some effect on SPY. The thing is, SPY didn’t get to 700 first before they fell. The bulls have had plenty of chances

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, February 12, 2026 9:05 am Eastern  –  The trendline is still in play right now. After falling away from the trendline area yesterday and getting about 70 points or so below it, they have worked their way back up to the trendline during the premarket this morning. For today, the

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, February 11, 2026 9:26 am Eastern  –  After yesterday’s close, price stayed under the trendline and the middle of nowhere until 8:30 am Eastern, when price got a boost from some data releases. They went straight up to the trendline – the same zone we had on the board yesterday

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, February 10, 2026 9:18 am Eastern  –  Premarket price is still hanging out under the trendline that we talked about in the Weekly Recap video which was posted yesterday. They’ve tagged the trendline a couple times already in the overnight/premarket sessions. For today, the trendline zone is sloping down from 695.88

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, February 9, 2026 9:18 am Eastern  –  The SPY closed at 690.62 last Friday. When they opened for the after-hours session Sunday evening, price dropped a little and they’ve been hanging out in that general area throughout the premarket. Price has been more or less bouncing between 691.68 on the

SPY Levels & Game PlanFriday, February 6, 2026 9:10 am Eastern  –  There are some big battles going on right now. Here are some observations about where SPY is right now, and what we might expect to happen in the near term:Monthly and weekly charts are still bullish – above their respective 50-period MA. Yesterday,

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, February 5, 2026 9:24 am Eastern –  Remember the axis level from yesterday at 690.50? The bulls were not able to get back up there to at least test it in the overnight session. And now in the premarket, with about 45 minutes until the opening bell, as I write this,