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Saturday pre-market and Tesla is already making noise at $362 — this one sets the tone.

Aug 22, 2026 · 7:04 AM CT · 2:30 · The MadBrooks Brief | Pre market | Sat, Aug 22

Saturday pre-market and Tesla is already making noise at $362 — this one sets the tone. Futures are green but calm. SPY up 0.41%, QQQ up 0.35%. VIX sitting at 15.13 — nobody's scared. Gold up 2.39%, which is the loudest macro signal in this entire setup. Small caps leading with IWM up 0.77%, Dow…

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Saturday pre-market and Tesla is already making noise at $362 — this one sets the tone.

Futures are green but calm. SPY up 0.41%, QQQ up 0.35%. VIX sitting at 15.13 — nobody's scared. Gold up 2.39%, which is the loudest macro signal in this entire setup. Small caps leading with IWM up 0.77%, Dow ETF DIA up 0.89%. Rotation into value is real today.

No earnings. No economic data. Pure price action.

Asian markets — no data available tonight. Flying blind on overnight sentiment from that side of the world.

Now the stocks.

Tesla up 5.14% to $362.86. Momentum. Nothing about that move is quiet.

Oracle up 3.1% to $146.47. AI infrastructure trade still has legs.

Intel down 2.24% to $90.07. Lagging while everything else lifts — that's a problem.

Salesforce up 1.82% to $209.17. Enterprise software catching a bid.

Costco up 1.52% to $947.74. Defensive consumer holding firm.

UnitedHealth up 1.37% to $390.11. Healthcare steady as always.

Alphabet up 1.22% to $344.82. Quietly grinding higher.

Broadcom up 1.21% to $368.45. Semis mixed but Broadcom isn't flinching.

Nvidia down 0.98% to $214.72. Red day for the market's most-watched chip name — in a session where everything else is lifting, that's worth noting.

Seven of the top names green, Intel and Nvidia both in the red. Intel is down over two percent while semis broadly hold — that's a stock-specific story, not a sector story. Nvidia slipping on a green tape is a different kind of signal — watch whether that gap widens at open. Tech is leading, small caps are moving, gold is surging. When gold runs like that while equities are green, pay attention to what the bond market does when it opens. No calendar events means price discovery is on its own today. Thin volume on a Saturday session. Moves can get exaggerated fast.

Numbers don't lie. People do. Trade accordingly.

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