This content was created by Dave Barnhart. This content was uploaded by Dave Barnhart. This is a YouTube pre-market alert video titled "URGENT PRE-MARKET ALERT: SPY & QQQ Trade Setups!" (uploaded 2026-02-18). A single presenter walks through technical market analysis for SPY and QQQ: reviewing large prints/dark-pool prints, support and resistance levels, moving averages (50, 100, 200), bullish and bearish trigger prices and targets, and intra-day trade setups. The host also promotes a weekly Dark Pool newsletter and a sponsor partnership (MobyTick with TrendSpider).
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Good morning, traders. It's Wednesday, February 18th at 4:31 AM. Let's review our trade setups we have for today. We have the SPY and we have the QQQ. So let's go ahead and look at SPY. Last 30 days, as always here, January 21st, large print 3.7 million, and then we came back up and tested this other print Here, and then it looks like there's consolidation. And so we have this range here from about 695 down to 677. So that's what, 18 points? And we've been just whatever mishmashing through this. We call it print pong. We held this bottom here yesterday, and now we're starting to move up through these other prints. It looks like we're through the 686.07, and we're pushing up through through these prints here. So let's map out an upward trade and then a retracement trade to see we're kind of, you know, stuck in between this range as well. So we're going to be bullish above $687, target $687.89 here, then $689.25, 3.2 million shares, $689.56, $690.35 is our 2, then we've got $690 161, 4.2 million, and a 2.3 million here within 6 cents. So that's, uh, 6.5 million here, 692.11, and 692.12 is another 3.9 million. So lots and lots of prints here. If this can actually become support, then we're, then we're rocking and can probably come back up here. If we reject at this level, we can come back down and test These ones here as well. So above this, 694, 695, 40 is a 2.5 million, and 694, 62 is an 8 million. So that, that's a huge, huge print there. And then we've got 697, 50, 699, 51, which is R3. So that gives us about 14 points on that. Now on the downside, we're going to be bearish below 685 with a target of 684.53. So we'll get below here, 685, 684.53, then we've got 683.69, uh, 682.01. There's a nice, nice movement down here. There's my 50 simple here around, uh, 683, and then down here we're getting to my 200 exponential moving average. We're getting into support. We can see here that the post-market support as well up to 8 PM. From here we've got 681.19 and 17, which is a double pivot. It's a pivot and a cam in my 200 simple moving average, so this can be support here like I had mentioned as well. Then we've got 680.33, then we've got 680, 670, 681, 687.44, and then this 36. This is eight cents away from this S one, so this here can be a massive support zone with this 3.7 million here as well. 675, 673.59 is a cam. 672.03 is S two. So that's quite the range there. That's thirteen points on the spy. Let's go ahead and look at the QQQs. All right, so the Q's we are going to— well, first let's look at our prints here. January 21st, we had this large one, about 2 million. And I guess, well, January 20th, we had this print here. So these, these are late prints. This actually belonged in— the volume belongs in this previous day's candle. So this was reported late, and then we opened and held this 100 simple moving average. This one opened, we got a new print down here, this 2 million, and we upthrust it, and it looks like they were selling off 2.9 million, 1.82, all of this. We pulled all the way back to get new prints. We came up, tested lower high prints, and now We've made a lower low, which we're holding this 2.5 million here, and let's see if we can start moving back up. We could draw a line down here, so maybe 608 potentially, but let's see if we can break above this. Otherwise, if we if we break below and close below this 597, then I would think we would be going short on that. So we're going to be bullish above 606. Let's get above this mess. 605.55 is a 2.2 million. And we've got this R1. So bullish above $6.06, target $6.0650, $6.0714 is a CAM, $6.0785 is 2 million shares right here. Uh, $6.1014 is R2, $6.1205, $6.1314 is a 2.3 million, $6.1417 1.7, $6.1643 1.2. So these are the ones that we were talking about potentially getting up here. Then I've got 617.50, 620, 620.75 is R3, and then another, another, uh, 2.7 million here at the top. Okay, okay. So the QQQs, we're going to be bearish below 604. Let's get below this cam. Target 603.25, 602.27. This cam here. Then we've got 601, 633 right down here. 599.53 is the pivot. 598, 598.38 is the cam. 597.21 is this 2.5 million. And then we've got 595.46 here. And then this is a double support here. On the bottom, when we get back down to this area around the 600 level, just be careful. This was the post-market support area. There's my 200 simple moving average, 200 exponential moving average, and the 50. So this might be a soft landing here for this on that. Okay, there you have it. Those are your two trade setups for today. We also have a weekly Dark Pool newsletter, so you can click the link in the description below. And what we do is on Sundays you get a market recap, what's going on in the dark pools, a little bit of educational content, and you get some swing setups for the week. So yeah, do that and leave some comments in the comment section below. Let us know how you're doing. And we will see you later this afternoon with our results video. Happy trading. MobyTick has partnered with TrendSpider to bring real-time institutional trades to your charts. Click the link in the description below for more details.
