Fuse Out, Gold Bid
Spotter sent 9 hourlies overnight and only one on the index board: an NQ hourly bull that got overshot, then marked the low. Crude's fuse went out on Trump's Iran pledge, gold ran over its hourly bear to sit on top of its expected move, and ES ran Thursday's high and gave it back.
Friday, October 9, 2026
Our board printed one buy level on the index futures overnight. Nasdaq futures went 31.50 points through it in 16 minutes, and then the rally started from that low. NQ is up more than 250 points from Thursday's close, ES ran Thursday's cash high and gave it back, and small caps and the Dow are holding over Thursday's highs. That's the one index print. Everything else on the board was rates, currencies, and metals. All night, Spotter sent 9 prints: 9 hourlies, 0 Dailies, 0 Weeklies.
The fuse on crude went out. President Trump said Thursday the US won't attack Iran before the November midterms, and WTI futures slid from the $91.49 settle, took out Thursday's 90.25 low by 24 cents, and got back above it. Gold took the bid instead. It printed an hourly bear at 4190, got run over by $43.70 to 4,233.70, and is sitting just above the top of today's expected move. A report that OpenAI expects at least $70 billion in annualized revenue by year-end took some heat off the chip selloff that sank the Nasdaq 1.3% on Thursday.
No US data prints before the open. Michigan sentiment is at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Here's what the board printed, session by session, and what we're doing about it.
Asia: one index print, and it marked the low
What printed on our board. Six prints in Asia. The one that matters: NQ hourly bull 30984.5 (zone 30984.50–30995), touched at 30982 at 7:47 p.m. ET. NQ didn't hold it right away. It went to 30,953 at 8:03 p.m., 31.50 points under the zone, and that was the overnight low. From there NQ climbed the rest of the night. ES, YM, and RTY printed nothing overnight.
The rest of Asia was outside the index board. Silver printed
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