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Here's an example

This excerpt is from the Thursday, July 2, 2026 brief. It's a few days old on purpose, so you can look up how it played out. Subscribers were reading it at 8am that morning.

Pre-market brief · Thursday, July 2, 202624 findings that morning

Signal spotlight

META

communication services · bullish · intraday

This is the day's most-corroborated signal. Meta generated 26 separate bullish options positions across strikes from 587.50 to 632.50 spanning expirations today through July 8, the densest single-ticker options cluster in the signal set by a wide margin. This is consensus-aware in the sense that the cloud compute announcement was widely covered, but the breadth and density of the options positioning goes beyond what typical post-news call buying looks like. Options market makers holding bearish call exposure across this ladder will be adjusting their hedges all session, creating a mechanical force that pushes META's price toward the clustered strikes into the close. The earnings date of July 29 adds a second horizon: the re-rating has not yet been validated by a quarterly report that will show whether the cloud business generates real revenue.

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The sources

Every reading is scored against its own history before it can reach the brief. A volume spike only counts if it's unusual for that instrument, at that hour, on that day of the week.

  • Overnight futures volume anomalies
  • S&P 500 pre-market gaps
  • Unusual options flow & 0DTE blocks
  • SEC filings: 8-K, Form 4 clusters, 13D/G
  • Analyst upgrades & target moves
  • FINRA short-sale volume
  • CFTC COT speculative positioning
  • Congressional trades (Senate eFD)
  • Sector ETF flow anomalies
  • Credit ETF stress (HYG, LQD)
  • CBOE put/call ratio & VIX
  • VIX term structure
  • MOVE bond-market volatility
  • EIA petroleum inventories
  • Copper/gold & gold/silver ratios
  • Interbank funding stress (SOFR)
  • Dark pool prints (FINRA ATS)
  • Baltic Dry shipping proxy
  • FDA approval calendar (PDUFA)
  • Clinical trial catalysts
  • Lobbying spend surges
  • 13F institutional cluster buys
  • Foreign US Treasury holdings
  • Margin debt swings
  • Google Trends corroboration

How it works

One person built this and runs it. Producing the brief costs about $3 a day.

  1. 1
    Overnight collection
    While the market is closed, fresh readings come in from every source we watch. Each one is compared with months of its own history, so only genuinely unusual activity moves forward.
  2. 2
    Research and writing
    The outliers get researched, cross-checked against the news, and written up. A separate validation pass tries to knock each claim down before it can be published.
  3. 3
    Scoring
    Each finding is stamped with a baseline price and a time window. When the window closes, we record whether the call was right. That record is what you see above.

We keep score

Every finding is published with a baseline price and a time window. When the window closes, the outcome gets recorded: what the price did, and whether the call was right. 318 findings have been graded that way in the last 30 days. The grading exists so the brief improves. Sections that underperform show up in the numbers quickly, and they get reworked instead of quietly kept.

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