Weekly Market Outlook + Levels | ES + NQ | 4.13.26

Apr 13, 2026

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Weekend development is that the talks between US and Iran have fallen through.

Major news prints this week are Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. Fed on the mic Friday

** Vix expiration is Wednesday as well

Never a bad idea to see how VX and 10Y are reacting to this. This will kind of show whether people are risk on / risk off.

We had some poor structure left behind from that gap up last week

Whats interesting is we have two distinct distribution areas here w poor structure in the middle.

We rotate up into the LIS and then really were not able to break and hold above it. Volume starts to dry up as well.

right now ES is at 6803 in the overnight session.

The only thing we can really do is wait to see how the overnight positioning reacts

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