Premarket Volume Scan

Market Narrative

## Premarket Scan for July 13, 2026 Volume is telling the clearest story this morning, and NVDA sits at the top of the list for good reason. The stock is up 4.03% to $210.96 with 149 million shares already traded premarket, a figure that dwarfs everything else on the scan. The premarket range is a relatively tight 2.13%, which actually makes the setup cleaner rather than messier. When you see that kind of volume commitment at these levels, institutions are not testing the water, they are positioning. The shares-only vehicle is the right call here given where options liquidity tends to thin out in early premarket windows, and the HOD breakout strategy applies well to a tight PM range like this. Watch for a clean consolidation near the premarket high before the open, and treat any fade back through VWAP as a warning rather than an entry. The rest of the B-tier names on July 13, 2026 are worth monitoring but require more patience. NU at $13.76 has 124 million shares traded with a 2.47% PM range and a modest 0.66% gain, meaning volume is running hot without a strong directional catalyst pushing the price. SOFI at $18.78 shows the widest PM range of the B-tier group at 4.63% on 91 million shares, which argues for a VWAP-anchored approach rather than chasing the open. AAL and PATH are both slightly negative, and with PATH down 1.02% at $11.68 on nearly 79 million shares, there could be a LOD breakdown setup developing if sellers maintain control through the open. All four of these are shares-only plays given the strategy designations and price levels. NVVE is up 55.69% with a listed volume of zero, which is a hard pass until real tape confirms the move. Macro context is clean today. No high-impact events are scheduled, which means price action will be driven by overnight flows and sector momentum rather than headline risk. That is a favorable environment for technical setups, particularly HOD and LOD breakout strategies on the names with tight premarket ranges. The volume leaders with no directional move, ZBAO, DFNS, SNDQ, JZXN, and GMM, stay off the active list until one of them develops a readable range with price commitment to match. Volume without direction is noise. Come back to those only if structure emerges in the first 30 minutes.