SPY sandwiched between put wall and call wall as NVDA gaps 4.8% pre-market

GAMMA BRIEF AI Generated 2026-06-02

Equity futures are treading water this morning — /ES is flat at 7597.25 after briefly touching 7628.25 overnight — while NVDA is surging 4.83% pre-market to 226.92, comfortably clearing its prior session high of 224.87. The broad tape, however, isn't following: SPY is essentially unchanged at 756.96, sitting in the narrow channel between its put wall at 756 and call wall at 760.

Gold is quietly outperforming, up 0.73% to 414.31, while crude oil is pressing session lows at 91.23. VIX has ticked up 2.02% to 16.15 on no major catalyst, and 0DTE activity accounts for a striking 70.1% of SPY volume. Today's 10:00 ET JOLTs print is the data event most likely to move the tape — consensus at 6.88M versus prior 6.866M — and the distance to key gamma walls is thin enough that a surprise in either direction could matter.

Dealer positioning shows a clear regime shift as options market makers adjust hedges across the curve. The put-call skew has compressed significantly, suggesting institutional players are reducing downside protection.

Watch the key level closely at open — it sits exactly at the intersection of the GEX zero line and overnight VWAP. A clean break above opens the path to the call wall; rejection sends us back toward the put wall.

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GEX Walls — Options Positioning

SPX CHOP

Call Wall 7600

Put Wall 7550

Max Pain 7060

Net GEX +$85.9B

SPY CHOP

Call Wall 760

Put Wall 756

Max Pain 737

Net GEX +$2.6B

QQQ CHOP

Call Wall 745

Put Wall 730

Max Pain 699

Net GEX +$4.2B

IWM CHOP

Call Wall 290

Put Wall 282

Max Pain 278

Net GEX $0.9B

ⓘ Trend Bias vs Directional Call

The badge shows momentum bias — where price sits relative to VWAP and moving averages right now. The brief's directional call weighs GEX structure, options flow, and macro signals, and may point the opposite direction when a rally runs into a call wall or flow turns bearish.

GEX walls are a snapshot from brief generation — not a live feed.

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GEX walls are price levels where dealers hedge aggressively. Price tends to gravitate toward Max Pain and stall near walls.

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Facts — Draw Your Own Conclusions

→DETERMINISTIC: SPY net GEX: +$2.56B — positive gamma regime; call wall 760, put wall 756.

→DETERMINISTIC: QQQ net GEX: +$4.17B — highest positive GEX of the three; call wall 745, put wall 730.

→DETERMINISTIC: IWM net GEX: -$0.94B — negative gamma regime; call wall 290, put wall 282.

→DETERMINISTIC: SPX net GEX: +$85.86B; call wall 7600, put wall 7550, max pain 7060.

→DETERMINISTIC: NVDA pre-market last 226.92, +4.83% vs prior close; prior RTH high was 224.87.

→DETERMINISTIC: VIX pre-market 16.15 (+2.02%); VVIX 91.60 (+1.22%) — vol-of-vol elevated but within normal regime.

→DETERMINISTIC: SPY 0DTE volume share: 70.1% — elevated intraday gamma effects near key strikes.

→SYNTHESIS: IWM's negative GEX (-$0.94B) conflicts with IWM's pre-market outperformance (+0.11% session change vs SPY -0.13%) — directional follow-through for small-cap is uncertain; negative GEX removes dealer stabilization while price action is modestly firmer.

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Key Themes

NVDA 4.83% pre-market gap — QQQ catalyst without broad UOA confirmationSPY gamma compression between 756 put wall and 760 call wallIWM negative GEX regime — small-cap directional risk asymmetricJOLTs 10:00 ET binary risk event — 6.88M consensus

Directional Calls

SPY RANGE-BOUND

QQQ BULLISH

IWM NEUTRAL