2026-06-04

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📊 Pre-Market Playbook (PMP) – Thursday, June 4, 2026

Market Theme: "Divergence Everywhere"

This is one of the more interesting overnight sessions we've seen recently.

We currently have:

• ▸🔻 MES selling off
• ▸🔻 MNQ selling off harder
• ▸🔺 MYM (Dow) aggressively buying

Normally ES and NQ lead the market. This morning Dow is the outlier and has almost completely erased yesterday's decline while ES and NQ remain below critical weekly levels.

That creates a highly reactive environment where patience is likely worth more than prediction.

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📰 Economic Calendar

🟠 8:30 AM

Unemployment Claims

• ▸Forecast: 214K
• ▸Previous: 215K

Although classified as an orange folder, this may become today's primary catalyst.

Labor data remains one of the Fed's most closely watched metrics.

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🟡 8:30 AM

Revised Nonfarm Productivity q/q

• ▸Forecast: 0.5%
• ▸Previous: 0.8%

Revised Unit Labor Costs q/q

• ▸Forecast: 2.4%
• ▸Previous: 2.3%

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🟡 8:30 AM

FOMC Member Barkin Speaks

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🟡 10:00 AM

FOMC Member Bowman Speaks

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🟡 10:30 AM

Natural Gas Storage

• ▸Forecast: 99B
• ▸Previous: 92B

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🟡 Afternoon Speakers

• ▸Daly (11:40 AM)
• ▸Schmid (1:00 PM)
• ▸Daly (1:10 PM)

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📰 Macro Backdrop

According to CNBC, futures are weaker overnight as Broadcom and semiconductor stocks weigh on technology shares.

Meanwhile:

• ▸Iran headlines remain unresolved
• ▸Markets continue receiving conflicting reports
• ▸Traders are becoming desensitized to headline risk

As a result:

Price action matters more than the news narrative right now.

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🟣 VIX Analysis

Current Structure

Current Price

16.68

Daily Open

16.33

Daily Low

16.28

Current Weekly High

16.80

VIX continues expanding higher.

This is the first meaningful VIX strength we've seen in several sessions.

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Bullish VIX Scenario (Bearish Equities)

Price has now traded into multiple overlapping liquidity zones.

Targets

1. ▸16.81 NWOG Mid
2. ▸16.85 Previous Day High
3. ▸16.92 NWOG High
4. ▸16.99 NWOG Low
5. ▸17.18 Previous Day High / NWOG Mid
6. ▸17.23 Previous Week High
7. ▸17.38 NWOG High
8. ▸17.39 Previous Day High

If VIX continues holding above 16.52, equities will likely remain under pressure.

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Bearish VIX Scenario (Bullish Equities)

If VIX fails:

Targets

1. ▸15.97 NDOG High
2. ▸15.88 Weekly Open
3. ▸15.80 NDOG Mid
4. ▸15.77 NDOG Low
5. ▸15.60 NWOG Mid
6. ▸15.50 Daily Bullish Volume Imbalance Mid
7. ▸15.32 NWOG Low
8. ▸15.22 Previous Week Low
9. ▸15.14 Daily Bullish Volume Imbalance Low
10. ▸14.85 Yearly Open

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🔵 MNQ Analysis

Current Structure

Current Price

~30,200

Daily Open

30,460.50

Weekly Low

30,163.00

MNQ suffered the largest overnight liquidation.

Unlike ES, NQ decisively broke beneath:

• ▸Weekly Open
• ▸Monthly Open
• ▸New Week Opening Gap

This makes NQ the weakest of the major indices.

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Key PDA

4H Bullish Fair Value Gap

• ▸High: 30,274.50
• ▸Mid: 30,193.50
• ▸Low: 30,112.50

Price is currently sitting inside this gap.

This is the primary decision zone for the session.

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Immediate Resistance

1H Bearish FVG

• ▸Low: 30,348.25
• ▸Mid: 30,418.75
• ▸High: 30,489.25

This aligns almost perfectly with:

• ▸Weekly Open
• ▸Monthly Open

Making it the most important overhead PDA on the chart.

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Bullish Scenario

If buyers defend the 4H FVG:

Targets

1. ▸30,348
2. ▸30,418
3. ▸30,489
4. ▸30,694.75
5. ▸30,807.75 ATH
6. ▸30,900
7. ▸30,950

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Bearish Scenario

If the 4H FVG fails:

Targets

1. ▸30,112.50
2. ▸30,072 4H OB
3. ▸30,055 1H OB
4. ▸29,983.75 1H OB
5. ▸29,862.50 Swing Low
6. ▸29,763.25 Previous Day Low
7. ▸29,743 Previous Week Low

Extended target:

May 24 NWOG

• ▸High: 29,675
• ▸Mid: 29,597
• ▸Low: 29,520

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🔵 MES Analysis

Current Structure

Current Price

7542.25

Daily Open

7541.50

Daily High

7558.00

Weekly Low

7524.50

MES has sold off overnight but remains stronger than NQ.

The important distinction:

NQ has already broken significant structure.

ES is still attempting to hold higher-timeframe support.

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Key PDA

Inverted 4H Bullish Fair Value Gap

• ▸High: 7575.25
• ▸Mid: 7559.75
• ▸Low: 7544.00

Current price is sitting directly on the low of this inverted gap.

This makes today's opening location extremely important.

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Bullish Scenario

If buyers defend 7544:

Targets

1. ▸7559.75
2. ▸7575.25
3. ▸7588 Swing High
4. ▸7590.50 NWOG Low
5. ▸7592.50 NWOG Mid
6. ▸7594.75 Weekly Open / Monthly Open

Those weekly and monthly levels remain the primary upside objective.

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Bearish Scenario

If 7544 fails:

Targets

1. ▸7524.50 Weekly Low
2. ▸7518.50 NWOG High
3. ▸7515 Swing Low
4. ▸7505.75 Previous Week Low
5. ▸7501.50 NWOG Mid
6. ▸7484.25 NWOG Low

Below there:

Order Block

7474.50

Swing Low

7469.50

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🔷 Dow (MYM) – The Wild Card

This is today's most important observation.

While:

• ▸ES sold off
• ▸NQ sold off

Dow has aggressively rallied overnight.

Current Price

~51,206

Weekly / Monthly Open

51,121

Dow is currently trading above both.

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Why This Matters

Dow has already reclaimed:

✅ Weekly Open

✅ Monthly Open

✅ Most of yesterday's selloff

Meanwhile:

❌ ES has not

❌ NQ has not

This creates significant intermarket divergence.

One of two things usually happens:

Scenario A

Dow pulls ES and NQ higher.

Scenario B

Dow eventually fails and joins ES/NQ lower.

The opening session should reveal which outcome institutions prefer.

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🎯 Narrative Alignment

Bullish Factors

✅ Dow aggressively buying

✅ ES sitting on major support

✅ NQ sitting inside 4H bullish FVG

✅ Unemployment Claims forecast remains stable

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Bearish Factors

⚠️ VIX breaking higher

⚠️ NQ below Weekly Open

⚠️ NQ below Monthly Open

⚠️ Semiconductor weakness

⚠️ Iran uncertainty remains unresolved

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Trade Thesis

Today's market is giving conflicting signals:

• ▸VIX = Bearish
• ▸NQ = Bearish
• ▸ES = Neutral to Bearish
• ▸Dow = Bullish

That means this is not a day to force directional bias before the market chooses one.

The highest-probability approach is:

Let 8:30 unemployment claims hit.

Watch how price responds around the MES 7544 area and the MNQ 30,112–30,274 FVG.

Then trade the reaction rather than the prediction.

Right now, the cleanest read is:

NQ is weak, Dow is strong, and ES is caught in the middle.

That usually means patience pays better than anticipation.

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