Week Ahead — Mon Sep 7 → Fri Sep 11, 2026

Holiday-shortened 4-day week. Labor Day Mon Sep 7 — US equity and bond markets closed. Fed blackout runs Sep 5 → Sep 17 ahead of the Sep 15–16 FOMC.

Action Items

No pre-earnings run-up entries or exits this week. No tier-1 or tier-2 name reports inside the 3-week window (Sep 7 → Sep 25). Season opens with GS/JPM entry on Mon Oct 5.
Fri Sep 11, 8:30am ET — August CPI. Last inflation print before the FOMC decision, inside blackout. Largest single-print vol event of the week and the prime SPY scalp window.
Thu Sep 10, 8:30am ET — August PPI + jobless claims hit together. Second-largest vol window.
No 2:00pm ET Fed release this week — blackout means no speakers, no minutes, no Beige Book. Every vol window is an 8:30am data print or a 1:00pm auction, not an afternoon Fed event.
Regime is SHORT-GAMMA — the banked premium-selling edge (long-gamma days only) is not available. Scalp conditions, no directional GEX edge.
ORCL and ADBE both report Thu Sep 10 AMC. Neither is on the run-up list; relevant only as single-name index drag/lift into Friday's CPI open.

GEX + VIX Regime

SPY spot

770.19

Net GEX ≤5 DTE

−1.24bn

Net GEX ≤30 DTE

−2.42bn

Regime

SHORT-GAMMA

VIX

14.53

Snapshot is Friday Sep 4 close (CBOE delayed data; Sunday run). Units are $ per 1% SPY move. No gamma-flip zero-cross found within ±10% of spot. The VIX change field returned a prior close identical to the level, so treat the day-over-day delta as unreliable — the 14.5 handle itself is the usable read.

Dealers are short gamma into a shortened week, so hedging flow amplifies rather than dampens moves — expect roughly 1.6x normal ranges, with the whole week's realized vol concentrated in the Thursday and Friday 8:30am prints. VIX at 14.5 is the tension: options are priced for calm while positioning is set to expand ranges, which is a scalper's setup, not a premium-seller's. The backtested sell-defined-risk edge (61.5% win rate) requires long gamma and is off the table this week.

Day by Day

Day	Earnings	Macro / events
Mon Sep 7	—	Labor Day — markets closed. No equity or bond session. Fed blackout already in effect (began Sat Sep 5).
Tue Sep 8	CASY AMC ABM Q3 call	6:00am — NFIB Small Business Optimism (Aug) 1:00pm — 3-year note auction 3:00pm — Consumer Credit (Jul)
Wed Sep 9	—	10:00am — Wholesale Inventories (Jul, final) 10:00am — Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (Jun, BLS) 1:00pm — 10-year note auction
Thu Sep 10	ORCL AMC — FQ1'27 ADBE AMC — Q3'26	8:30am — PPI (Aug) 8:30am — Initial jobless claims 1:00pm — 30-year bond auction
Fri Sep 11	KR BMO	8:30am — CPI (Aug) — headline event of the week 8:30am — Real Earnings (Aug) 10:00am — UMich Consumer Sentiment, prelim (Sep)

Zero watchlist names report this week. GME, CHWY and RH also print mid-week; exact days unconfirmed. Auction times are the standard 1:00pm ET slot — the 3/10/30 sequence is compressed into Tue/Wed/Thu because of the Monday holiday, so supply lands on the same two mornings as PPI and CPI.

Run-Up Schedule — Next 3 Weeks (Sep 7 → Sep 25)

Ticker	Tier	Reports	Buy (close)	Sell (close)	Status
No tier-1 or tier-2 name reports inside the window. No entries, no exits, no positions to manage.

Next entries after the window, for calendar planning:

Ticker	Tier	Reports	Buy (close)	Sell (close)	Expiry / size
GS	T2	Tue Oct 13 BMO	Mon Oct 5	Mon Oct 12	First expiry after Oct 13 — half size
JPM	T2	Tue Oct 13 BMO	Mon Oct 5	Mon Oct 12	First expiry after Oct 13 — half size
BAC	T2	Wed Oct 14 BMO	Tue Oct 6	Tue Oct 13	First expiry after Oct 14 — half size
MS	T2	Wed Oct 14 BMO, est.	Tue Oct 6	Tue Oct 13	First expiry after Oct 14 — half size
NFLX	T2	Tue Oct 20 AMC	Tue Oct 13	Tue Oct 20	First expiry after Oct 20 — half size
AXP	T2	Fri Oct 23 BMO, est.	Thu Oct 15	Thu Oct 22	First expiry after Oct 23 — half size
GOOGL	T1	Wed Oct 28 AMC	Wed Oct 21	Wed Oct 28	First expiry after Oct 28 — full size
META	T1	Wed Oct 28 AMC	Wed Oct 21	Wed Oct 28	First expiry after Oct 28 — full size
MSFT	T1	Wed Oct 28 AMC	Wed Oct 21	Wed Oct 28	First expiry after Oct 28 — full size
AAPL	T1	Thu Oct 29 AMC	Thu Oct 22	Thu Oct 29	First expiry after Oct 29 — full size
AMZN	T1	Thu Oct 29 AMC	Thu Oct 22	Thu Oct 29	First expiry after Oct 29 — full size

Dates on NYSE calendar. MS and AXP report dates are estimates from prior-year patterns — confirm before the Oct 6 / Oct 15 entries. Never hold any of these through the print.

Vol Setup

Four sessions, short gamma, and a 14.5 VIX means implied vol is cheap relative to a positioning backdrop that will amplify moves — the mismatch resolves at 8:30am Thursday and 8:30am Friday, not gradually across the week. Tuesday and Wednesday should be thin holiday-week tape with auction supply as the only real catalyst, so the honest read is two live sessions and two dead ones.

With the Fed silenced through Sep 17, CPI is the entire market-implied FOMC path in a single print, and the ORCL/ADBE reactions land in the same overnight window — Friday's open is the one genuinely two-sided setup of the week. No premium-selling edge available; scalp the prints, size for 1.6x ranges.