📋 TFZ WATCHLIST — WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2026 📋 Good morning, TFZ family! ☀️ The market is OPEN today, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET — Veterans Day, so stocks trade normal hours while the bond market is closed and no major U.S. data is due. Tuesday was a hot-CPI selloff, but futures are bouncing hard this morning — the Nasdaq is leading on CoreWeave's earnings beat, and the whole chip group is gapping up. The Fed repricing is real though: a December hike is now a near-certainty, and the only question is 25 or 50 basis points. Today is a confirm-first day — a gap up is not a trade until the open holds it. 📊 MARKET CONTEXT 🔴 S&P 500 — 7,520.93 (-0.38% Tuesday, -29.01 points) 🔴 Nasdaq Composite — 25,065.87 (-0.74% Tuesday, -187.26 points) 🔴 Dow — 52,231.89 (-0.30% Tuesday, -157.86 points) 🔴 Russell 2000 — 2,821.38 (-0.68% Tuesday) 🔴 SPY — $749.92 Tuesday close (range $744.86–$752.14) 🔴 QQQ — $674.76 Tuesday close (range $667.05–$680.95) 🔴 IWM — $280.58 Tuesday close (range $277.91–$281.33) Premarket this morning (8:53 a.m. ET): SPY near $757.06 (+0.95%), QQQ $687.25 (+1.85%), IWM $283.11 (+0.90%). Futures at about 7:35 a.m. ET: Nasdaq-100 +1.86%, S&P 500 +0.84%, Dow +0.14%. Tuesday's hot CPI knocked stocks lower, but the bounce this morning is real — CoreWeave's earnings beat is lifting the whole AI trade. The 10-year yield closed Tuesday at 4.98%, after briefly trading above 5%. Oil is bouncing off two-month lows — WTI near $86.53 (+0.57%), Brent near $92.20 (+0.78%). Gold (Dec futures) fell 1.84% Tuesday to $4,038.70. Six of 11 sectors finished higher Tuesday, with Financials leading — but Tech lagged, down 1.15% on the Nvidia drag. 📊 VIX GAME PLAN 🟢 VIX closed Tuesday at 19.44, down 2.41% (fear easing). Premarket VIX was near 18.46, down about 5% at 8:28 a.m. ET. ✅ Below 16 = calm, Ron's calm level — cleaner follow-through for calls ⚠️ Between 16 and 19.44 = still above calm, trade small and only confirmed setups ⚠️ Between 19.44 and 25.64 = fear rebuilding, size down and wait for a real setup