Ticks & trades DAILY RECAPS

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 29, 2026 9:03 am Eastern – The bulls were able to keep price on top of the axis level of 709.68 all day yesterday. It proved to be good support during the regular session and the overnight session through the morning, so far. For today, that axis level is

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, April 28, 2026 8:52 am Eastern – We’ve got a little pullback in the premarket. Price has returned to a level that has been important since Friday, April 17. It is 709.68. It took about a week for the bulls to get on top and make an effort to get

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, April 27, 2026 9:37 am Eastern – SPY is still stalled and going sideways around Friday’s highs. The close on Friday was 713.95. The bulls would be in better shape to continue the short squeeze if they keep price above 713.95. Getting below and establishing closes below 713.95 opens the

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 22, 2026 9:20 am Eastern – There is still choppiness in the SPY. The bulls in the SPY and IWM are trying to hold the status quo while the bears in the DJT took control over the past couple days – as we suspected they would. Yesterday was another

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 22, 2026 9:25 am Eastern – The axis level from the last couple days continues to be important. Today, that level is at 709.70. Price stayed mostly above it yesterday, but they’re back down to that area in this morning’s premarket session. Once again, we’re using it as an

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 22, 2026 8:51 am Eastern – Remember the axis level from yesterday at 709.68? If price got under and started closing hourly candles under it, the bears would have been in a better position to pull price down more. That did happen yesterday. Now this morning in the premarket,

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, April 21, 2026 9:27am Eastern – Yesterday’s daily candle in the SPY was a doji candle. Usually, that can be a sign of a potential trend change. Also, a sign of some indecision. But the trade volume was low, so it has less meaning. In the premarket, with about 15

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, April 20, 2026 9:14 am Eastern – We’ve got a little pullback in the premarket this morning. Price already visited some leftover levels from last Friday and bounced from there. For today, we have an area between 709.68 and 710.15 that could be an axis area. If the bulls can

SPY Levels & Game PlanFriday, April 17, 2026 9:31 am Eastern – It might be a mistake to include so many levels for today, but here we go. Not all need to be traded against. Keep refreshing this page – I’ll update the Game Plan until about 9:44 am. I was busy managing a premarket

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, April 16 2026 9:26 am Eastern  – We’re back up into uncharted territory. Not a lot to say about today’s levels. Yesterday, we had a level at 701.25 that price did not get up to during the regular session. They hit it in the premarket session this morning, and it

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 15, 2026 8:58 am Eastern  – Will today be a wacky Wednesday? It’s possible. In some markets, the bull surge is starting to feel overextended. The DJT is screaming, and it’s possible that when they hit a target where profit-takers show up, they can fall. That could happen soon.

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, April 14, 2026 9:11 am Eastern  – The SPY is on time for a possible turn today. No guarantees it will happen, but from a strictly timing perspective, price in SPY has reasons to stall out. If that happens, we could get a reversal signal (so far there has not

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, April 13, 2026 9:08 am Eastern  -We’ve got a little pullback going in this morning. The premarket opened with a gap lower of more than 50 S&P points. And interestingly, price went right down to a level we had on the board for Friday, at 674.82 and found support. You’ll

SPY Levels & Game PlanFriday, April 10, 2026 9:32 am Eastern  – Levels are above and in the screenshot below. Keep refreshing page until 9:45 am as I work on the Game Plan.There’s not much to say, actually. If/when today closes above the 50-period MA on the weekly chart, all timeframes are once again bullish.

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, April 9, 2026 9:23 am Eastern  – We may have some divergences in the markets today. Here are some observations:The DJT had a great day yesterday and got back up to and busted through 20,000. The IMW gapped up at the open, like most everything else, but they fell back

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 8, 2026 9:14 am Eastern  – The IWM is screaming. The DJT looked great at the closing bell yesterday. And the SPY is following suit. Those other markets were our leading indicators, as we discussed in yesterday’s Game Plan.For today, price is poised to open right under an important

SPY Levels & Game PlanTuesday, April 7, 2026 9:04 am Eastern  – Price in the premarket has pulled back a little, but they’re still on top of the trendline. For today, that trendline runs from about 652.50 at market open down to about 651.00 by the closing bell. The dotted light blue lines represent the

SPY Levels & Game PlanMonday, April 6, 2026 9:25 am Eastern  – Running a little late this morning. Refer to the levels above, and in the screenshot below. Keep refreshing this page up to 9:45 AM Eastern, as I will be updating the Game Plan…On Thursday, April 2 – the most recent trading day before

SPY Levels & Game PlanThursday, April 2, 2026 9:14 am Eastern  – After hitting the trendline yesterday and making a high at our level of 658.09, the bears have pulled price down over 140 S&P points in the overnight and premarket sessions. This is the kind of movement and pulls on the market – in

SPY Levels & Game PlanWednesday, April 1, 2026 9:04 am Eastern  – There was follow through with the futures during the overnight session and guess where they got price up to? The original trendline that started at the end of February. You will probably recall that most of month of March, price stayed constrained under