ES Sell Level Sits Under the High

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

The imbalance board put a sell level on ES right under the overnight high. The ES hourly bear 7776.5 printed at 3:26 a.m. ET, touched at 7776.5. ES is trading under it now. From Tuesday's 4:00 p.m. ET close to the run, the UW board sent 13 prints: 13 hourlies, 0 Daily, 0 Weekly. MedianReclaim sent 6 Daily median tags and 1 Weekly median tag, 7 tags, no repeats. Every count is a Discord alert from imbalance-alert-router.

Two of the 13 UW prints were on the index board. The ES hourly bear at 7776.5, and the RTY hourly bear 2789.6 at 7:19 a.m. ET. MedianReclaim tagged NQ's Daily median at 29882.25 at 4:55 a.m. and RTY's prior Weekly median at 2781.6 at 2:12 a.m. No Daily or Weekly UW prints anywhere overnight.

Here's the backdrop. ES ran Tuesday's high and gave it back. NQ ran this week's high and gave it back. YM ran last week's high and gave it back. RTY didn't touch a level. Yesterday's After the Close said Tuesday's high was the first test for ES and NQ. Both got there overnight and neither stayed.

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

Asia: quiet on the index board

What printed on our board. One print after the close, bitcoin hourly bear 82700 at 4:33 p.m. ET. Then five in Asia, all hourly. The pound hourly bear 1.338 at 10:14 p.m. The yen hourly bear 0.006353 at 11:55 p.m. The Nikkei hourly bear 64960 at 1:27 a.m. Bitcoin hourly bull 82660 at 1:52 a.m. and the yen hourly bull 0.0063485 a minute later. No MedianReclaim tags in Asia.

What price did. The highs came early. ES made its overnight high at 7,793 at 6:01 p.m. NQ