Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Futures give back part of Tuesday's chip-led rebound — S&P 500 –0.31%, Nasdaq 100 –0.77% — as Brent crude builds toward a six-week high near $94 on an 11th consecutive night of US strikes on Iran and Secretary of State Rubio's declaration that Tehran is "not serious" about peace talks, with tonight's after-hours trio of Alphabet, Tesla, and Texas Instruments set to be the week's real catalyst.

The Iran war escalated rather than cooled overnight: US forces struck Iranian targets for an 11th straight night, Kuwait reported a fresh Iranian drone attack on Camp Doha (a US Army base) that Iran claimed responsibility for, and the Pentagon disclosed the conflict has cost $37.5B so far. Oil reacted sharply — opening modestly higher but building through the morning toward Brent near $94 (+4%) and WTI near $87.50 (+3.8%) as Rubio's comments landed — a sharp reversal of Tuesday's ceasefire-hope pullback. Two Saudi crude tankers (the Shin Long Yang, 2M bbl, and the Rhodes, 700K bbl) already reversed course in the Red Sea toward the Suez Canal on Houthi threats, with Asian refiners rerouting Saudi crude around Africa — a sign shippers are pricing a prolonged disruption, not just a headline spike.But the actual catalyst for the week sits after tonight's close: Alphabet, Tesla, Texas Instruments, ServiceNow, and IBM's formal Q2 confirmation all report AH, with Street conviction unambiguously bullish into Alphabet (three separate PT raises this week, consensus ~24–27% implied upside) while Tesla's options market prices a ~7.6% swing on margin quality versus a best-ever Q2 480,126-delivery quarter.Underneath the macro noise, Morgan Stanley's "AI eats SaaS" software call is no longer a one-day event: Tuesday's actual trading mostly confirmed the thesis (CRM –2.15%, ADBE –3.23%, INTU –1.33% all underperformed the S&P's +0.89%, though FTNT actually closed –1.41%, reversing its initial upgrade-day pop rather than outperforming), and today the sweep widened past 14 names — WDAY, WIX, VERX, NICE, SPSC joined the Morgan Stanley list, while Rothschild & Co separately downgraded Shopify (SHOP) even as Morgan Stanley itself named Shopify one of its own top 8 Overweight picks — alongside an explicit Palo Alto Networks top-pick call, the mirror-image "buy the infra/security layer" trade.Supermicro's record $60B order-backlog disclosure sent shares up as much as +25% after hours before fading to +7% by this morning's premarket, AT&T's EPS was in-line but revenue missed, though shares held a modest premarket gain on Mobility/Wireline growth, and Moody's and CME both beat BMO.The insider tape's cleanest signal keeps building — Elevance Health's Chairman and CEO both made open-market purchases the same day — while the Jana Partners/Everpure activist stake awaits its formal 13D, and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon added a rare public warning that investors are underpricing geopolitical and fiscal risk, landing the same morning oil is spiking and VIX ticks up on its own expiration day.

1. Market Snapshot

Key backdrop: Tuesday July 21 close: S&P 500 +0.89% to 7,509.20; Dow +0.74% to 52,224.64; Nasdaq Composite +1.29% to 25,837.21 — Tuesday's chip-led rebound held through the close (SOXX +5.45%, MU +12.17%, INTC +7–8.64%). Today's tape gives back some of that: futures red across the board, oil spiking toward a six-week high, 10Y at 4.63% (highest since mid-May), DXY ~101.20 near a one-week high. Tonight's after-hours trio — Alphabet, Tesla, Texas Instruments, plus ServiceNow and IBM's formal Q2 confirmation — is the actual event risk for the week.

2. Asia Recap

July 22 closes (completed overnight ET).

Net read: Korea's premarket sidecar-triggering +5.8% open shows the chip-rebound conviction is still real, but the fade to +0.74% by the close — alongside Nikkei's –0.37% giveback and Sensex's –0.75% drop — signals oil is now the dominant cross-asset driver, overriding yesterday's clean chip-led risk-on. China is the outlier, extending its rebound (+0.7%, semis +3.4%) as it looks past the oil spike toward next week's Politburo meeting. Relevant: china_tech_rebound, semiconductor_value.

3. Europe Now

At open, July 22.

Read: Europe opens mildly green despite the overnight oil spike, with UK CPI's downside surprise (2.6% vs. 2.7% consensus, lowest since March 2025) the clearest positive catalyst — it supports a prolonged BoE hold into the July 30 decision. Cash markets stay open well past this brief's compilation window; the ECB decision (Thursday) and flash PMIs (Friday) remain the week's gating European events. Data note: figures above are at-open reads, not confirmed cash-close levels.

4. Economic Calendar

Context: FOMC blackout remains active (began midnight Sat Jul 18, runs through midnight Jul 30) — no Fed speakers this week. The FOMC decision itself lands next week (Wed Jul 29). Today is dominated by an already-released UK CPI print and Japan trade data, with the week's gating events still ahead: the ECB decision (Thu Jul 23) and global flash PMIs (Fri Jul 24). Tonight's after-hours slate (Alphabet, Tesla, Texas Instruments, ServiceNow) is the single most consequential data point of the week for US equities — Alphabet's call is at 4:30 PM ET, Tesla's at 5:30 PM ET.

Upcoming (out of week)

5. News & Events

Iran War Escalates — Oil Spikes Toward a Six-Week High

US forces struck Iranian targets for an 11th consecutive night, Kuwait reported a fresh Iranian drone attack on ammunition/logistics facilities at Camp Doha (a US Army base) that Iran claimed responsibility for, and Secretary of State Rubio — speaking at the ASEAN summit in Manila — said Iran is "not serious" about peace talks even as the US remains nominally open to negotiate. The Pentagon disclosed the war has cost $37.5B so far. Oil reacted sharply: after opening modestly higher, Brent and WTI built through the morning toward +4% (~$94.23) and +3.8% (~$87.46) respectively as Rubio's comments landed — a sharp reversal of Tuesday's ceasefire-hope pullback. Two Saudi crude tankers (the Shin Long Yang, 2M bbl, and the Rhodes, 700K bbl) already reversed course in the Red Sea toward the Suez Canal on Houthi threats, with Asian refiners now rerouting Saudi crude around Africa. Relevant: geopolitical_crisis, energy_seasonal, commodity_supercycle.

Morgan Stanley's Software Reset Confirmed in Live Trading — Widens Past 14 Names

Tuesday's coordinated Morgan Stanley downgrade played out largely as the thesis predicted: CRM –2.15%, ADBE –3.23%, INTU –1.33% all underperformed the S&P's +0.89%, though Fortinet (the lone MS upgrade) actually closed –1.41%, reversing its initial upgrade-day pop rather than outperforming. Today the sweep widened well beyond the original eight names — Workday (WDAY, –22% PT to $145), Wix (WIX, –46% PT to $60, the largest single cut), Vertex (VERX, –21%), NICE (–15%), and SPS Commerce (SPSC, –19%) joined the Morgan Stanley list, while separately Rothschild & Co downgraded Shopify (SHOP) to Neutral (PT cut to $130 from $160) on AI-competition fears from Meta — even as Morgan Stanley itself named Shopify one of its own top 8 Overweight picks in the same software sweep. This confirms a full sector reset spanning 14+ tickers, not a stock-picking exercise. Morgan Stanley also formally named Palo Alto Networks (PANW) its cybersecurity top pick, lifting the PT to $387 from $320 — the explicit mirror-image "buy the infra/security layer" trade. Relevant: sector_rotation, quality_factor, cloud_cyber_value, ai_infra_picks_shovels.

Supermicro's Record Backlog Fades From an After-Hours Spike

Supermicro's preliminary Q4 update disclosed a record $60B order backlog and raised its gross-margin guide to 15–17% from 8.2–8.4% on favorable customer/product mix, sending shares up as much as +17% to +25% in Tuesday after-hours trading (high ~$29.75–29.80) — though revenue itself is tracking to the low end of the $11.0–12.5B range. By Wednesday's premarket the move had faded to +7.01% ($25.50 vs. Tuesday's close), and WSB mention volume spiked sharply in 24 hours — a genuine catalyst-driven retail spike, not unexplained momentum. Relevant: ai_infrastructure_layer, ai_infra_picks_shovels.

AT&T Misses, Trade Policy Adds a Second Front

AT&T's Q2 EPS was in-line ($0.57 vs. $0.57 est.) while revenue missed ($29.8B vs. $29.98B est.), and shares held a modest premarket gain as Mobility (+3.4%) and Consumer Wireline (+7.0%) growth offset Business Wireline weakness. Separately, Trump's 25% tariff on (most) Brazilian goods — with coffee, beef, orange juice, aircraft/parts, avocados, Brazil nuts, and energy all exempt — took effect today, the administration is weighing replacing the expiring 10% global tariff baseline with permanent duties, and Trump has set a phased tariff on imported generic drugs (0% for two years from Aug 1, 2026, then 100%, then 200%) to push reshoring of manufacturing. Relevant: gop_trading, reshoring_industrial.

Insider & Activist Tape

The Elevance Health (ELV) insider cluster is a genuine signal: Chairman Ramiro Peru's $366K open-market purchase and CEO Boudreaux's $1.0M buy, both on Jul 17 — a single coordinated cluster of real personal capital into a steep 2026 managed-care drawdown. Separately, the Jana Partners/Everpure (P) situation remains the tape's most live activist story: a confirmed >1M-share stake sent the stock up ~9–10% on media reports of the position, with the formal Schedule 13D still outstanding — worth checking again intraday for the filing itself. Relevant: insider_buying_real, contrarian_fallen_angels, activist_distressed.

6. WSB/Retail Sentiment

Per AltIndex, today's top WallStreetBets tickers by mention volume are Micron (463, bearish), Google (351, bullish), Microsoft (233, bearish), SpaceX (230, neutral), SanDisk (144, neutral), Nvidia (141, neutral), Supermicro (136, bullish), Nebius (119, bullish), Tesla (102, neutral), and Meta (77, bearish). The standout story is Supermicro's sharp mention-volume spike on last night's backlog disclosure. Google is drawing bullish retail attention ahead of tonight's print, while Microsoft, Micron, and Meta all carry a bearish retail tilt heading into a heavy mega-cap earnings stretch — retail chatter remains concentrated in AI-infrastructure/chip/memory names (MU, NVDA, SNDK, SMCI, NBIS), with the GOOGL/TSLA/IBM after-hours trio the dominant overnight talking point.On positioning, the most recent verified CBOE equity put/call reading (0.66, Jul 20) still sits in call-heavy/bullish territory at the single-name level, while SPY-specific put/call ratios run structurally higher — the same "greed at single-name level, caution in index hedges" split noted in prior sessions. Adding a note of caution: JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon said investors are underestimating geopolitical and fiscal risk, adding he wouldn't buy equities or extend Treasury duration at current prices — a rare public bearish comment from a top Wall Street voice, landing the same morning oil is spiking. Relevant: sentiment_reversal, tail_risk_harvest.

7. Commodities & Currencies

Energy note: Oil's premarket move built through the morning toward Brent near $94 (+4%) and WTI near $87.50 (+3.8%) as Rubio's comments landed — a sharp reversal of Tuesday's ceasefire-hope pullback, and the story of the day for cross-asset risk. Two Saudi crude tankers already rerouting around Africa via Suez is the tell that shippers are pricing a prolonged disruption, not just a headline spike. Relevant: energy_seasonal, commodity_supercycle.

Gold note: Gold's extension to ~$4,080–4,090 (+1.6–1.8%) is the mirror image of the oil move — a genuine safe-haven bid despite a firm dollar (DXY 101.20), consistent with clients adding hedges into tonight's earnings risk rather than fading it. Relevant: gold_bug, warflation_hedge.

8. Earnings This Week

Reported BMO today (Wed Jul 22):

Reporting AH tonight — the week's marquee prints:

Thursday (Jul 23): BMO — Lockheed Martin ($7.22 EPS, defense backlog read), RTX ($1.66), T-Mobile ($2.61), Union Pacific ($3.20), Freeport-McMoRan ($0.59, ~8.2% swing priced), Dow Inc., Blackstone, American Airlines ($0.05). AH — Intel ($0.21–0.22, key semi-complex read after last week's SOX rout).

Friday (Jul 24): BMO — American Express ($4.40), Verizon ($1.27), HCA Healthcare (~$7.62, formal print after its guidance cut).

Guidance warnings active: IBM (pre-announced Jul 14, memory-chip-shortage/client-spend-shift narrative), HCA (cut FY26 guidance on payer-mix headwinds), Air Canada (suspended FY guide on jet-fuel volatility), Constellation Brands (withdrew FY2028 guide), Pentair (cut FY EPS + CFO resignation). Supermicro's pre-announcement is the inverse — a positive guidance revision (formal Q4 print not until Aug 11). Relevant: earnings_surprise_drift, earnings_gap_and_go.

9. Strategy Triggers

Oil Spike Reverses the Risk Calculus

The cleanest directional signal on the board: Brent building toward +4% and WTI toward +3.8% on the 11th consecutive night of US strikes on Iran, Rubio's "not serious" comments, and confirmed tanker rerouting around Africa via Suez. This is a genuine escalation, not a headline spike — gold's +1.6–1.8% bid and the equity-futures pullback both confirm the market is repricing tail risk rather than fading it, a direct reversal of Tuesday's ceasefire-hope optimism. Relevant: geopolitical_crisis, energy_seasonal, gold_bug.

Software-vs-Compute Rotation Is Confirmed, Not Just Thesis

Tuesday's actual trading mostly validated the Morgan Stanley call (CRM/ADBE/INTU underperformed as predicted, though FTNT itself closed lower rather than outperforming), and today's expansion to 14+ names plus the explicit PANW top-pick designation turns this from a single-day event into the dominant multi-day sector theme. This argues for rotating within tech — favoring AI-infrastructure/security-platform names over application-layer SaaS — with tonight's GOOGL/TSLA prints as the confirming catalyst for the AI-capex side of the trade. Relevant: sector_rotation, quality_factor, cloud_cyber_value.

Chip Complex Is Choppy, Not Trending

Asia's premarket confirms the semiconductor bid is real but fragile: KOSPI's +5.8% open faded to +0.74% by the close, and Nikkei gave back –0.37% as oil weighed. Trailing-month data still shows semis down ~20% from their peak even as the SOX sits roughly 30% above its 200-day moving average — consistent with a volatile rotation phase rather than a clean trend in either direction. Tonight's TXN print is the next real data point. Relevant: semiconductor_value, sentiment_reversal.

ELV Insider Cluster Keeps Growing

Chairman Ramiro Peru's $366K open-market purchase alongside CEO Boudreaux's $1.0M buy, both on Jul 17, forms a genuine, coordinated-conviction cluster into a steep 2026 managed-care drawdown. The stock already trades well above its 52-week low, meaning the worst is arguably priced, and roughly 14–15 of ~22–23 covering analysts rate it Buy. Relevant: insider_buying_real, contrarian_fallen_angels.

10. Tuesday's Predictions — Scorecard

11. Trade Ideas

Observations from the research briefs — not investment advice.

ISRG — Intuitive Surgical (~$347–350) | Beat-and-Guide-Down, Oversold, Street Still Bullish — STRONG BUY

The cleanest new setup in the batch: Q2 revenue and EPS both beat consensus (+18.5% YoY revenue, EPS +11.9% above estimate), and the ~14–15% drawdown is a reaction to cautious forward procedure-growth guidance and a Class II recall on da Vinci components — not to the quarter itself. RSI 33.4 sits in oversold territory near the 52-week low ($344.55), and despite a wave of price-target cuts (JPMorgan $550→$450, Wells Fargo $654→$487), the analyst consensus remains solidly Buy with an average target near $504–550 (45–59% implied upside). Risk: the recall and slowing US procedure trends are real and could extend the guidance-caution overhang into next quarter. Relevant: dcf_deep_value, earnings_surprise_drift.

ELV — Elevance Health (~$393) | Insider Cluster Now Growing — STRONG BUY

What was a single CEO buy has become a genuine two-person cluster: CEO Boudreaux's $1.0M purchase and Chairman Peru's $366K buy, both on Jul 17 — real personal capital committed into a steep 2026 managed-care drawdown by the people with the best visibility into the business. The stock (~$393) trades well above its 52-week low ($273.71), meaning the worst of the drawdown is already behind it, and roughly 14–15 of ~22–23 covering analysts rate it Buy, with post-earnings bull-case targets running as high as ~$450–498. Risk: this is a sector-wide Medicaid/managed-care margin story (XLV a laggard across the group), so a two-person insider cluster doesn't override a bad sector print. Relevant: insider_buying_real, contrarian_fallen_angels.

IBM (~$210–213) | Binary Event Tonight — WATCH, No Pre-Position

Oversold across every timeframe (daily RSI 29, 4-hour RSI ~19) after the July 14 crash, but CEO Krishna's own words — clients shifting spend to in-house AI hardware — described a structural threat to IBM's core software/infrastructure business, and a securities fraud investigation is now open. The formal Q2 report lands tonight at 5 PM ET; that print, not the technical setup, is the actual catalyst, and it's genuinely binary. Analyst target dispersion has widened to $191 (HSBC, Reduce) vs. $375 (bulls) — a 96% spread that itself signals unresolved uncertainty. Don't act on the oversold reading before the print. Relevant: dcf_deep_value, earnings_surprise_drift.

ORCL — Oracle (~$121–126) | Deep Oversold, Capex Bet Under Genuine Scrutiny — WATCH

RSI 28.8–29.5 and trading 30% below its 200-day moving average after a historic –35% June (worst month since 1990) puts Oracle firmly in oversold territory, and the Street's consensus rating is still Buy (82% of 43 analysts) with an average target near $261–265. But this is not a garden-variety overreaction: negative free cash flow of ~$24B, a credit downgrade to BBB- (one notch above junk), and a $70B FY27 capex plan are genuine balance-sheet questions tied to whether the OpenAI-anchored infrastructure bet monetizes on schedule. Enter only with a clear view on the capex/FCF trajectory, not on the technical oversold signal alone. Relevant: ai_infra_picks_shovels, contrarian_fallen_angels.

The Day Ahead in One Paragraph

The session opens in retreat from Tuesday's chip-led rebound — S&P 500 futures –0.31%, Nasdaq 100 –0.77% — as Brent crude builds toward a six-week high near $94 on an 11th consecutive night of US strikes on Iran, a Kuwait drone attack on a US base, and Secretary Rubio's declaration that Tehran is "not serious" about peace talks; two Saudi crude tankers already rerouting around Africa via Suez are the tell that shippers are pricing a prolonged disruption, not just a headline spike.But the real catalyst is still ahead: tonight's after-hours trio of Alphabet, Tesla, and Texas Instruments (plus ServiceNow and IBM's formal Q2 confirmation) is the single most consequential data point of the week, with Street conviction unambiguously bullish into Alphabet (three separate PT raises this week) and Tesla's ~7.6%-implied swing pricing a genuinely uncertain margin-versus-deliveries outcome.Underneath the macro noise, Morgan Stanley's software-vs-compute rotation call is no longer a one-day event — Tuesday's CRM/ADBE/INTU underperformance confirmed the thesis in live trading (though FTNT itself closed lower rather than outperforming), and today's sweep widened past 14 names (WDAY, WIX, VERX, NICE, SPSC, plus Shopify's separate Rothschild downgrade) alongside an explicit Palo Alto Networks top-pick call, arguing for the same intra-tech rotation rather than blanket de-risking.Supermicro's record $60B backlog and AT&T's revenue miss round out a heavy earnings tape, while the Elevance Health insider cluster and the Jana Partners/Everpure activist situation both await a same-day check for fresh developments.With Jamie Dimon publicly flagging underpriced geopolitical and fiscal risk, oil spiking, and VIX ticking up on its own expiration day, the tape's message echoes Tuesday's scorecard lesson: weight flow and rotation signals over conviction index-direction calls until tonight's earnings actually clarify where the AI-capex/software argument is heading.

Today's Predictions

1. S&P 500 closes red, in a –0.1% to –0.6% range, with the Nasdaq underperforming the Dow into tonight's after-hours risk — the chip-led rebound stalls rather than reverses outright.
2. Brent closes above $92/bbl and WTI above $86/bbl, holding most of today's spike as the Iran escalation (11th night of strikes, Rubio's "not serious" comment, rerouted Saudi tankers) overrides yesterday's ceasefire-hope pullback.
3. Gold closes green above $4,100, extending its safe-haven bid alongside the oil spike and a firm dollar.
4. VIX closes above Tuesday's 17.05 but stays under 19 — today's "vixperation" expiration adds noise without breaking the multi-month contango regime.
5. Alphabet trades higher in the after-hours session on a cloud/TPU beat, validating the Street's bullish pre-print PT consensus (BMO $455, BofA $430, Wells Fargo $438).
6. Tesla's after-hours reaction is volatile rather than tight, given options pricing a ~7.6% swing — margin-quality scrutiny against the best-ever Q2 480,126-delivery quarter cuts both ways.
7. IBM's formal Q2 confirmation doesn't move the stock much beyond its post-crash $210–213 range unless Krishna offers new guidance — the pre-announcement already priced the miss.
8. Morgan Stanley's now-14+-name software downgrade list (WDAY, WIX, VERX, NICE, SPSC joining CRM/ADBE/INTU, plus Rothschild's separate Shopify downgrade) underperforms the broad market again today, extending Tuesday's confirmed pattern.
9. SMCI gives back a further share of its post-earnings pop, continuing the fade already visible from Tuesday's +25% after-hours spike to Wednesday's +7% premarket read.
10. AT&T trades in a tight range near flat-to-slightly-lower despite the revenue miss, as Mobility and Consumer Wireline growth cushion the Business Wireline weakness.

Sources
- Yahoo Finance — Stock Market Today, Wednesday July 22
- CNBC — Stock Market Today, Live Updates
- CNBC — Oil Prices, Iran War, Macro, Rubio, Brent/WTI
- Al Jazeera/AA — Iran Says It Targeted US Military Base in Kuwait With Drone Attack
- Irish Times — Rubio Claims Iran "Not Serious" About Peace Talks
- US News — Asian Refiners Look to Suez Canal to Move Saudi Oil Amid Houthi Threats
- gCaptain — Two Tankers Carrying Saudi Crude Make U-Turns in Red Sea
- Rio Times — Global Economy Briefing, July 22
- Investing.com — Asia Stocks Climb on Tech Gains, KOSPI Surges 5%, Middle East Tensions Simmer
- Business Recorder — China Equities Extend Rebound Led by Chip Stocks
- Korea JoongAng Daily — KOSPI Closes Up 0.74% on Extended Chip Stock Rally
- Equitymaster — Sensex Today Tanks 577 Points, Nifty Below 24050
- Boursorama — Prudence en Vue en Europe Avec une Pluie de Résultats
- ONS — UK Consumer Price Inflation, June 2026
- Investing.com — Japan Trade Balance Shrinks in June
- Yahoo Finance — Supermicro Stock Jumps on Gross Margin Raise Amid Record $60B Backlog
- StockTitan — Supermicro Provides Q4 FY2026 Preliminary Business Update
- Investing.com — AT&T Misses Q2 Revenue Expectations, EPS In-Line
- AltIndex — WallStreetBets Trending Tickers
- GuruFocus — Salesforce (CRM) Downgraded by Morgan Stanley, Shares Drop
- Yahoo Finance — Adobe, Salesforce, Intuit Fall on Morgan Stanley Downgrade
- MarketScreener — Morgan Stanley Upgrades Fortinet
- Benzinga Upgrades · Downgrades · Initiations
- TipRanks — IBM Will Report Q2 Earnings; Here's What Goldman Expects
- 24/7 Wall St. — Texas Instruments or ServiceNow: One Stock Has the Analyst Conviction to Soar
- TipRanks — GOOGL Stock Price Forecast Ahead of Q2 Earnings
- Motley Fool — GE Vernova Stock Up, Wall Street Price Target
- Motley Fool — Elevance Health CEO Boudreaux Buys $1.0M in Shares
- StockTitan — Elevance Health Form 4 Insider Trading Activity
- GuruFocus — Everpure (P) Gains 9.4% as Jana Partners Takes Stake
- Investing.com — Everpure Stock Rises After Jana Partners Builds New Position
- Trefis — 7 S&P 500 Stocks Just Touched 52-Week Lows
- Yahoo Finance — Intuitive Surgical Surprises With Q2 CY2026 Sales But Stock Drops
- Motley Fool — Intuitive Surgical Stock Trading at Multi-Year Lows: Bargain Buy?
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- Reference: agents-assemble/knowledge/premarket-research/20260721.md

Disclaimer

This report is produced for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, a solicitation, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. All data cited reflects information available as of the publication time noted above. Market conditions and geopolitical developments may change materially before or during the trading session. Futures and pre-market levels are indicative only and are not guaranteed opening prices. Past performance of any strategy referenced is not indicative of future results. Consult a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions.