NQ Accepts Under Last Week's Low
Our expected move had NQ's daily low at 29,172.38. NQ is under it, and under last week's low too, after Amazon. 24 UW prints and 22 median tags since Thursday's close. Here's the frame for the open.
Friday, October 30, 2026
Our expected move put NQ's daily low at 29,172.38 for today. NQ is under it. It's at 28,822.25, and the overnight low at 28,811.75 came 28.99 points over the 2x line at 28,782.76. On the way down NQ took out last week's low at 28,987 and this week's low at 29,024.25, and it's holding under both. ES is under its own daily expected-move low at 7,684.44, at 7,672.75. RTY took out Thursday's low at 2,848.40 and got back over it. The weak side got weaker after Amazon. Does anything reclaim at the open?
From Thursday's 4:00 p.m. ET close to the run, the UW board sent 24 prints: 16 hourlies, 8 Daily, 0 Weekly. Four were on the index futures: two on NQ and two on RTY. MedianReclaim sent 22 median tags: 16 Daily and 6 Weekly. Three were on the index futures: NQ's prior Weekly median, NQ's Daily median and ES's Daily median. Every count comes from imbalance-alert-router → Discord.
Amazon reported after Thursday's close. We read it through our levels, not the headline. NQ was at 29,566 at the 4:00 close and it's 743.75 points under that now.
Here's what printed, session by session, and what we're doing about it.
After the bell and Asia: through the week's lows
What printed on our board. Right at Thursday's close, RTY's hourly bear 2867.8 at 4:00 p.m. ET and NQ's hourly bull 29336.25 at 4:01 p.m. Three more UW prints before the reopen: the euro's Daily bear, the pound's hourly bear and the dollar index's Daily bull. MedianReclaim tagged Micro Bitcoin twice before 6:00 p.m.
From the 6:00 p.m. reopen to 2:00 a.m., 11 UW prints. RTY's hourly bull 2863.6 at 6:30 p.m. is the only index one. The rest were the euro, gold, the yen,
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