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Daily Brief — Wed Sep 23, 2026

SPY prints no clean zero-gamma flip today — stated plainly rather than estimated. With no flip to lean on, the box itself is the whole game: put wall 770, call wall 776, max pain 771. Plus 8 names with real options flow behind them today.
Tape: no flip / box-bound SPY: 772.79 between the 770 put wall and 776 call wall Exp move: ±0.7% Bias: trade the walls, not a flip that isn't there today

1 · The one thing that matters today

as of 13:15 UTC pre-market

SPY's chain doesn't cross zero today — no clean zero-gamma flip, checked live just now. That's worth saying outright rather than papering over with an estimate: some days the cumulative dealer-gamma curve simply doesn't cross the axis within the visible strike range, and today is one of them.

Without a flip to reference, the honest read is the box itself: spot (772.79) is sitting between the 770 put wall (−0.36%) and the 776 call wall (+0.42%), with max pain at 771 — almost on top of the put wall. That's a tight structural range, and today's expected move (±0.7%) covers most of the distance between the two walls on its own. This is a day to respect the walls as the range, not to hunt for a flip that isn't printing.

2 · SPY GEX levels

live · algoxflow.com/gex?ticker=SPY
Spot
772.79
pre-market
Zero-gamma flip
none printed today
Call wall
776
+0.42% above spot
Put wall
770
−0.36% below spot
Max pain
771
−0.23% below spot
Expected move
±0.7%
wider than recent days

With no flip, the walls do the work today. Hold the 770–776 box and it's a range day — fade both edges. A clean break of either wall matters more than usual precisely because there's no flip underneath to catch a breakdown or cap a breakout; there's no secondary structural level backing either side up.

3 · The watchlist — 8 names with real flow behind them today

sourced from today's sweeps feed, checked against each name's own gamma structure

Put wall · Call wall · flip and status pulled live per ticker, not estimated.

TickerSpotFlipCall WallStatusToday's flow
NU 14.02 15.78 15 BELOW FLIP $15C 11/20 — $158,365, the largest single print in today's feed. Struck right at the call wall, ~2 months out — needs to clear both the wall and an 11.2%-distant flip.
SPCX 153.43 169.49 160 BELOW FLIP $155C 10/9 — $144,100. Struck between spot and the call wall, still well under a flip that's 9.5% away.
NN 15.30 16.58 17 BELOW FLIP $21C 12/18 — $106,720. Spot is basically sitting on its own put wall (15), and this call is struck well past both the wall and the flip — a genuine longer-dated conviction bet, not a near-money play.
INTC 122.25 126.91 128 BELOW FLIP $120P 9/25 — $105,704 and $105P 12/17/27 — $47,520. Two puts, two very different horizons (this week and a LEAPS two years out), both bearish, both consistent with INTC already sitting under its own flip.
WMT 110.74 109.07 110 PAST WALL $109C 9/25 — $87,674, already in the money. Spot is already trading through its own call wall (110) — no mechanical cap above it right now.
NVDA 227.60 221.06 230 IN ZONE $230C 9/23 (today) — $86,676 and $230C 9/23 — $55,900. Same strike, same expiry, two separate sweeps ($142.6K combined) — real same-day conviction, struck right at the call wall while NVDA sits comfortably in zone.
AMD 618.81 588.59 630 IN ZONE $620C 10/9 — $74,825 and $610P 9/25 — $68,500. Two-sided again on AMD — a call above spot, a put below it — despite a genuinely favorable in-zone structure underneath both.
ADBE 240.34 242.5 NO FLIP $250C 12/18 — $48,145. ADBE prints no clean flip today either — stated as such. Strike sits above the call wall, a quarter out.

4 · How to trade today

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