The Board Split

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Our board put a Daily and a Weekly buy level under the Nasdaq overnight, and NQ is sitting on top of them. NQ printed a Daily bull at 29793.25 at 2:46 a.m. ET and a Weekly bull at 29764.75 at 2:52 a.m. London pushed through to 29,748.50 at 7:06 a.m., and NQ is back over both at 29,867.75. ES is the other half of the split. It swept Wednesday's low and got back over it. From Wednesday's 6 p.m. reopen to the run, the imbalance board sent 25 prints: 19 hourlies, 4 Daily, 2 Weekly, and MedianReclaim added 8 Daily median tags and 5 Weekly median tags. Every count is a Discord alert from imbalance-alert-router.

That's a busier board than Wednesday. Six Daily and Weekly prints, and four of them were on the Nasdaq. When the higher timeframes start printing on one contract, that's where the trade is.

Here's the backdrop. NQ is down more than 1% from Wednesday's 4:00 close. ES is down less than a quarter of a percent. The Dow and the Russell are green. Gold is up more than 1.5%. That's not a market selling everything. That's a market selling the Nasdaq.

So the question at the open is simple. Do the Nasdaq buy levels hold, or does the weak side drag ES back under Wednesday's low?

Here's what the board printed, session by session, and what we're doing about it.

Asia: NQ's first buy levels give way

What printed on our board. Thirteen UW prints in Asia. ES hourly bull 7759 at 6:17 p.m. ET, touched at 7758.5. At 6:40 p.m. NQ printed a Daily bull and a Weekly bull at 29993.25, both touched at 29990.5. The bond hourly bear 104.59375 at 7:45 p.m. RTY hourly bull 2741.2 at 7:51 p.m. **Gold hourly bear