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Daily Brief — Thu Oct 1, 2026

SPY and NVDA are both trading within a tenth of a percent of their own zero-gamma flip this morning — two different tickers, same razor-thin read. Plus 8 names with real options flow behind them today, led by $455,670 in all-bullish AMZN calls.
Tape: two names sitting dead on the line SPY: 765.61 0.10% below its 766.37 flip Exp move: ±0.4% Bias: small moves decide the regime on more than one name today

1 · The one thing that matters today

as of 12:37 UTC pre-market

SPY is trading 0.10% below its own flip, and NVDA — this morning's biggest name on the sweeps feed — is sitting just 0.08% below its own. That's two different tickers landing on almost the exact same razor-thin read at the same time: a move of a few cents either way flips which side of positive gamma each one is actually on. Worth flagging as the recurring pattern it's become — this board has shown this exact "everything crammed on the line" read three times in the past two weeks.

The sweeps feed also needed a cleanup before it was usable. The single largest premium print in today's raw top 15 was a $475,992 INTC put — but it carries a September 30 expiry, which already passed as of this morning. Its matching $169,785 call (same strike, same dead expiry) is gone too. Both are dropped from the watchlist below rather than presented as live positioning.

2 · SPY GEX levels

live · algoxflow.com/gex?ticker=SPY
Spot
765.61
pre-market
Zero-gamma flip
766.37
+0.10% above spot
Call wall
768
+0.31% above spot
Put wall
760
−0.73% below spot
Max pain
764
−0.21% below spot
Expected move
±0.4%
tight

Checked against the raw per-strike data this morning: the chain is healthy, not another gap like Tuesday's. Real negative gamma below spot (760 carries −$215.6M), a clean sign crossing into positive territory right around the flip, and a genuine peak at the 768 call wall (+$784.7M) — all consistent with the reported levels. Reclaim and hold 766.37 and SPY is back in positive gamma with 768 as the next check; lose 760 and the put wall is behind it too.

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
AMZN 251.50 249.38 250 PAST WALL Three calls, all bullish, no puts — $255C 10/16 $187,195, $250C 10/16 $151,855, $252.5C 10/16 $116,620 — $455,670 combined. Same expiry across three strikes, real one-sided conviction, on a name already trading through its own call wall.
NVDA 230.44 230.62 232.5 BELOW FLIP $230P 10/2 — $292,410 and $232.5P 10/9 — $119,700, $412,110 combined. Two bearish puts, different expiries, on a name sitting just 18 cents under its own flip — as thin a below-flip read as this board shows today.
MU 1055.37 1149.34 1100 BELOW FLIP Two calls ($1035C 10/2 $186,395 + $1100C 10/2 $138,450 = $324,845) against one put ($1050P 10/16 $180,745). Net bullish-leaning in dollars, but genuinely two-sided — not a clean signal.
LLY 1161.30 1235.79 1220 BELOW FLIP $1240P 11/20 — $252,820, struck above spot (already in the money for a put) and seven weeks out. Bearish, sized, and patient — LLY is 6.4% under its own flip.
COST 910.42 — 915 NO FLIP $915C 10/2 — $197,540, struck almost exactly at the call wall. COST prints no clean flip today — stated as such rather than estimated.
MSTR 154.20 160.88 162.5 BELOW FLIP $155C 10/2 — $79,200, struck just above spot. MSTR is only $4.20 above its own put wall (150) and 4.3% under its flip — thin structural cushion under a bullish bet.
GOOG 346.61 348.96 350 BELOW FLIP $335P 10/2 — $103,100, struck between spot and the put wall (330). Bearish, consistent with GOOG sitting 0.68% under its own flip.
LRCX 333.71 321.55 332.5 PAST WALL $345C 10/2 — $77,275. LRCX is already $1.21 past its own call wall, still 3.65% above its flip — a bullish bet on continuation with no mechanical cap directly overhead.

Two rows in today's raw sweeps feed — an INTC put and an INTC call, both tagged with a 9/30 expiry — are left off this list entirely: that expiry already passed, so neither print describes a live position today.

4 · How to trade today

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