Pre-market check: NVDA and TSLA intact, three names on watch

This review opens no new ideas by design: the US cash session starts at 13:30 UTC and pre-market prices are too thin to anchor levels. At 06:30 UTC index futures are mildly higher (ES +0.19%, NQ +0.52%, YM +0.21% vs the cash close), VIX closed at 15.67. Both open ideas are intact. NVDA closed at 224.58, above its 218.03 invalidation and below the 234.68 target; it expires today at 20:00 UTC. TSLA closed at 377.94, above 372.88. After-hours prints beyond those levels had zero volume and are ignored. Band check on clean daily bars (MA20 and ATR14 exclude the live bar): US 500 estimated at 7719 is +0.72 ATR above its MA20, in band; LLY +1.08 ATR (long side) and V -0.94 ATR (short side) are the equity candidates for the evening review. Discarded: US Tech 100 +2.91 ATR and US 30 -2.02 ATR (late), HD -3.19 and JPM -1.80 (late), MSFT, WMT, KO, CAT, XOM inside 0.5 ATR of the average (noise). AAPL is in band but the tech factor already holds two ideas. No major US release found for today; PCE appears due on 30/09.