Rimmed Out at Monday's High
NQ ran Monday's high twice overnight and ES ran it once, and both handed it back. Our board sent 18 UW prints and 6 Daily median tags since the reopen, all six index-futures alerts in London. Here's the frame for the open.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
NQ ran Monday's high twice overnight and handed it back both times. The first run came at 8:03 p.m. ET, two hours after the reopen. The second ran to 29,613 at 6:47 a.m., 41 points over 29,572. ES joined it at the same minute, 3.75 points over its own Monday high at 7,739.50, and slipped back under. Monday's high was a ceiling. Overnight, NQ knocked on it again. So does the open treat it as a ceiling or a floor?
Our alert board was busy right at the turn. NQ's hourly bear UW level at 29531 was tapped at 6:44 a.m. ET, three minutes before that 29,613 high. MedianReclaim tagged NQ's prior Daily median at 29298.125 at 3:07 a.m., a minute before NQ's overnight low. It tagged NQ's Daily median at 29438.75 at 5:00 a.m. and ES's Daily median at 7720.125 at 6:47 a.m. That's the board marking both edges of NQ's night.
Here's the count. From the Monday 6 p.m. ET reopen to the run, the UW board sent 18 prints: 17 hourlies, 1 Daily, 0 Weekly. Three of them were on the index futures: one on NQ and two on RTY. None were on ES. MedianReclaim sent 6 Daily median tags and 0 Weekly median tags, no repeats. Three were on the index futures: two on NQ and one on ES. Every count is a Discord alert from imbalance-alert-router.
That's six index-futures alerts in about 13 hours, and all six came in the London session. ES was at 7,732.25 on two feeds at 7:41 a.m. ET, 7.25 points under Monday's high.
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