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Case 13Called liveWednesday, August 26, 2026

Named before the open: support off the dominant positive strike at 7655

Posted before the open. Tested five and a half hours later.

SPX open
7,666.88
High
7,690.73

15:05 ET

Low
7,657.41

12:44 ET

Close
7,675.83
0DTE net gamma positive
60%

of the session's minutes

All-expiry net gamma positive
80%

of the session's minutes

VIX open → close
15.71 → 15.39
VIX high
15.71

The dive and the bounce

The story

  1. 07:17 premarket post: overnight low near 7655, support off the dominant positive gamma strike, upper boundary 7680. PCE day.
  2. 11:00 — the lid: 7680 +$9.2B against -$10.6B at 7685.
  3. 12:44 — low 7657.41, 2.41 above 7655, which had grown to +$5.0B, nearly all puts sold.
  4. Then what: back to 7680 by 14:00. Only when 0DTE net gamma went negative after 15:00 did price clear it, to 7690.73.

Minute by minute

The beats

  1. 10:10 ETposted live

    the post: at the charm zero line

  2. 11:00 ET

    7680 at +$9.2B against -$10.6B at 7685: the lid

  3. 12:44 ET

    session low 7657.41; 7655 at +$5.0B, +$4.9B of it puts

  4. 14:00 ET

    7680 back to +$11.0B

  5. 15:05 ET

    session high 7690.73 after net gamma flips negative

In #qo-market-data, as it happened

Posted live

10:10 ET
At charm zero line. Lets see if it holds or we get back into suppressive territory

From the product

The dashboard at each beat

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10:10 ET — The post: at the charm zero line

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