S&P Futures 7,614.00: Short 7,628 to 7,636 at the Pivot

At 7,713.00, Friday’s high in the December S&P 500 contract printed in the 6:00 PM ET bar at the Thursday reopen. It sat 29.00 points beneath the bottom of the 7,742 to 7,750 short zone in our Friday outlook. The band never traded. Neither did the 7,764 stop or the 7,728 first target. The contract fell to a 7,558.25 low in the 2:30 PM ET bar and settled at 7,614.00. With no trade in the band, no fill and no result is asserted.

It was the largest one-day decline since 06/05. December E-mini futures settled at 7,614.00, down 140.25 points or 1.81 percent, after a 154.75 point session from 7,558.25 to 7,713.00. Lower high, lower low. The 203.25 point decline of 06/05 is the last one larger. The settle finished at 36.0 percent of the range. The S&P 500 cash index closed at 7,580.07, down 140.32 or 1.82 percent, while the Nasdaq-100 cash index fell 3.46 percent and the semiconductor index 7.20 percent. The news feed carried at 4:07 PM ET an item, unconfirmed, that a chipmaker’s shares fell 29 percent. The provider’s commentary tied the decline to Thursday’s results from that chipmaker and an online retailer, a press report on an artificial-intelligence developer’s credit rating and higher oil prices.

Friday’s 7,713.00 high stopped 29.00 short of the 7,742 to 7,750 band

In Friday’s outlook we set a short from 7,742 to 7,750. Its stop sat at 7,764. The targets were 7,728, 7,710 and an extended 7,692. Friday’s completed bar, from the review and the dated 2026-10-30 row, opened at 7,709.25 at the Thursday 6:00 PM ET reopen, 32.75 points beneath the band bottom. It marked a high of 7,713.00 and a low of 7,558.25, and settled at 7,614.00. The whole band sits above that bar. The high stopped 29.00 beneath it.

The 30-minute bars fix the order. The high printed in the 6:00 PM ET bar on Thursday evening, the session’s opening bar. No later bar came closer to 7,742. The 7,764 stop sat 51.00 above the high and never traded. The first target never traded either. At 7,728 it sat 15.00 above the high. The second and third target prices did print. The 7,710 price sat inside that opening bar, whose range ran up to 7,713.00, and 7,692 first traded in the 8:30 PM ET bar. Both prints came with no trade in the band above them. No fill and no result is asserted.

The invalidation tests were never reached. The card negated its thesis on a settle above Thursday’s 7,754.25 settle. Friday settled 140.25 points beneath that line. Its acceptance test, two consecutive 30-minute closes above 7,750, can be read from the bars this time. The highest 30-minute close of the session was 7,706.25, in the 7:30 PM ET bar, 43.75 beneath 7,750. No such pair of closes printed.

The macro override named two triggers. One was a cash-session reversal of the after-hours declines in the online retailer and the chipmaker that the provider’s commentary reported. The other was a labour-cost reading taken as easing pressure on rates. Per the news-feed calendar and unconfirmed, the employment cost index rose 0.8 percent at 8:30 AM ET, in line with the forecast. No move is tied to it here. The override’s scenario, a move through the 7,764 stop, did not print. The high stayed 69.17 beneath its reference, Pivot R1 at 7,782.17.

Our three full-day ranges all lost their bottoms. The low sat 131.75 beneath the low-range case’s 7,690, 116.75 beneath the mid-range case’s 7,675 and 91.75 beneath the high-range case’s 7,650. Every top held. The bars grade the old intraday bands too. The night session to 3:00 AM ET traded between 7,665.25 and 7,713.00, so its low sat 14.75 beneath the 7,680 bottom of its band. London, 3:00 AM to 8:00 AM ET, reached 7,664.00, 11.00 beneath its 7,675 bottom. The morning, 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM ET, ran from 7,626.75 to 7,670.00. Its high met the band’s 7,670 bottom and its low sat 43.25 beneath it. The afternoon, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET, fell to the 7,558.25 low, 106.75 beneath its 7,665 bottom. Each session high stayed inside its band.

The weighted path lost its bottom on Thursday evening. Friday’s outlook expected a hold between Pivot S2 at 7,681.58 and the published target price at 7,768.89. In that judgment a rebound toward the Pivot Point that failed beneath Thursday’s settle was weighted slightly above a recovery through the 7,783.86 threshold conversion. No rebound reached the 7,745.83 Pivot Point; the high stayed 32.83 beneath it. The 9:00 PM ET bar on Thursday took the contract beneath Pivot S2 and, by 0.41, beneath three standard deviations support at 7,670.66. The card’s lower risk spoke of a cash-index move through the 7,690 pivot at the open. The futures had already traded beneath both of its references overnight. We grade the card as written. The band never traded, the stop never traded, and no result is claimed.

The Pivot Point at 7,628.42, the 7,628 to 7,636 band and the 7,650 stop

The basis barely moved. Friday’s 7,614.00 settle less the 7,580.07 cash close measures 33.93 points, against 33.86 on Thursday, and every cash equivalent in this article uses the new figure. The dataset keeps its own 34.05 point offset, 0.12 wider. Its published futures pairs are 8,134.05 for the 8,100 call-side ceiling, 8,034.05 for the 8,000 gamma concentration, 7,759.05 for the 7,725 modeled volatility threshold, 7,709.05 for the 7,675 modeled gamma-flip level and 7,634.05 for the 7,600 put-side support base.

Resistance starts 8.55 points up, at the 20 percent raw stochastic projection of 7,622.55 (cash 7,588.62). The band comes next. The Pivot Point at 7,628.42 (cash 7,594.49) sits 0.42 above its bottom. The 7,633.93 conversion of the 7,600 put-side base sits inside too, 2.07 beneath the top, and the dataset’s own 7,634.05 pair sits 0.12 above that conversion. The stop sits just beneath a tight pair. The 38.2 percent retracement from the 13-week low at 7,650.23 (cash 7,616.30) sits 0.23 above 7,650. The 30 percent raw stochastic projection at 7,654.70 (cash 7,620.77) sits 4.70 above it.

One standard deviation resistance at 7,680.68 (cash 7,646.75) and the 38.2 percent retracement from the four-week low at 7,687.84 follow, 7.16 apart. A dense band comes next. Pivot R1 at 7,698.58 (cash 7,664.65), the 50 percent retracement of the 13-week range at 7,698.88, the 100-day average at 7,700.25 and the 7,702.39 top of the one-range frame sit within 3.81 points. Six more sit just above. Two standard deviations resistance at 7,708.30, the 7,708.93 conversion of the 7,675 flip level, the dataset’s own 7,709.05 pair, Friday’s 7,709.25 open, Thursday’s 7,709.50 low and Friday’s 7,713.00 high (cash 7,679.07) sit within 4.70.

The averages come next. Higher up, the 9-day crossing price for Monday at 7,723.59, the 7,723.93 conversion of the 7,690 dealer-positioning pivot, the 5-day average at 7,724.75, the 9-day at 7,727.00 and three standard deviations resistance at 7,729.49 (cash 7,695.56) sit within 5.90 points. Thursday’s 7,754.25 settle, the 50-day at 7,757.50, the 7,758.93 conversion of the 7,725 threshold and the dataset’s 7,759.05 pair sit within 4.80. Thursday’s 7,773.75 high and the 20-day at 7,774.25 sit 0.50 apart. Pivot R2 at 7,783.17 (cash 7,749.24) and Pivot R3 at 7,853.33 (cash 7,819.40) follow. The 52-week high of 7,905.00 from 08/13 (cash 7,871.07) sits 291.00 points or 3.82 percent above the settle. The 8,034.05 concentration pair (cash 8,000) and the 8,134.05 ceiling pair (cash 8,100) complete the list.

Support starts 38.39 points down, at the published target price of 7,575.61 (cash 7,541.68). The extended target, 7,578, sits 2.39 above it. The 18-40 day crossover price at 7,563.80 and Friday’s 7,558.25 low (cash 7,524.32), also the one-month low, follow, 5.55 apart. One standard deviation support at 7,547.32 and Pivot S1 at 7,543.83 (cash 7,509.90) sit 3.49 apart. The one-range frame ends at 7,525.61, 5.91 above two standard deviations support at 7,519.70 (cash 7,485.77). Three standard deviations support at 7,498.51 sits 5.76 above the 13-week low of 7,492.75 from 07/31 (cash 7,458.82).

Deeper still sit Pivot S2 at 7,473.67 (cash 7,439.74) and the 7,433.93 conversion of the 7,400 support. The 200-day average at 7,427.75 sits 6.18 beneath that conversion. Pivot S3 at 7,389.08 (cash 7,355.15) and the 61.8 percent retracement from the 52-week low at 7,355.30 complete the list.

The averages sit overhead, all but one. The settle sits 110.75 points beneath the 5-day, 113.00 beneath the 9-day, 160.25 beneath the 20-day, 143.50 beneath the 50-day and 86.25 beneath the 100-day. It sits 186.25 above the 200-day. Each was rounded once to the 0.25 tick from the 260-session settlement series. The 5-day fell 9.25 from Thursday’s 7,734.00, and the 20-day fell 8.25 from 7,782.50 as the 10/02 settle of 7,777.25 left that window. The 9-day fell 13.50 from 7,740.50 and the 50-day 2.25 from 7,759.75, while the 100-day rose 0.75 from 7,699.50. The longer stack still rises. The 30 older settlements in the 50-day window averaged 7,746.10, the 50 older settlements in the 100-day window 7,643.35 and the 100 older settlements in the 200-day window 7,155.26. The 9-day average would be crossed on Monday at 7,723.59.

Momentum turned lower. On the provider’s published readings, taken at 6:24 PM ET on Friday with Globex closed for the weekend, relative strength reads 34.69 on the 9-day, 39.07 on the 14-day and 42.21 on the 20-day. The raw stochastic reads 21.34 percent on the 9-day and 17.34 percent on the 14-day. The smoothed 14-day %K at 39.39 percent sits beneath %D at 43.91 percent. Negative direction leads on both systems. On the 9-day it reads 36.31 against 14.32, with the ADX at 24.39. On the 14-day it reads 32.12 against 15.16, with the ADX at 17.85. Historic volatility reads 13.31 percent on the 9-day and 12.39 percent on the 14-day.

The composite multi-indicator read published for Monday is 56 percent sell, against 16 percent buy in the prior session’s snapshot. Its strength is described as strong and its direction as average. A week ago the snapshot read 40 percent sell, and a month ago 8 percent sell. The short-horizon group averages 60 percent sell, the medium-horizon group 50 percent sell and the long-horizon group 33 percent sell.

Friday’s range ran well past the averages. The 14-day average true range stands at 88.39 points and the 14-day average daily range at 90.54. The 9-day figures are 93.44 and 87.22 and the 20-day figures 85.47 and 83.07. Friday’s 154.75 point range was 1.71 times the 14-day average daily range, the widest since the 157.25 of 08/04. One average true range either side of the settle frames Monday between 7,525.61 and 7,702.39. The deviation bands are tighter at one and two deviations. They run 7,547.32 to 7,680.68 at one deviation, 7,519.70 to 7,708.30 at two and 7,498.51 to 7,729.49 at three. Built from five settlements, they describe dispersion, not intraday reach. The dataset’s implied five-day move is 1.48 percent, about 112.69 points on the settle.

Zoom out. Daily ranges over the last ten sessions ran 96.25, 87.00, 61.25, 122.00, 65.75, 87.75, 73.00, 69.25, 64.25 and 154.75 points. Settlement changes read plus 30.25, plus 20.75, plus 45.00, minus 95.75, minus 44.75, plus 54.75, plus 43.75, plus 25.00, minus 29.00 and minus 140.25. Two declines followed three higher settles. Over five sessions the contract is down 45.75 points from the 7,659.75 settle of 10/23. The weekly bar opened at 7,690.00 and closed at 7,614.00. Its 7,819.50 high topped the prior week’s 7,812.25, and its 7,558.25 low undercut the prior week’s 7,648.50. Friday opened 45.00 points beneath Thursday’s settle. Its high sat 60.75 beneath Thursday’s 7,773.75 and its low 151.25 beneath Thursday’s 7,709.50. The settle is the lowest since the 7,585.25 of 07/31.

Now the clock. The 30-minute series runs from the Thursday 6:00 PM ET reopen. Before the 9:30 AM ET cash open the contract traded between 7,664.00 and 7,713.00, and the 9:00 AM ET bar closed at 7,669.50. The four-hour bars closed at 7,671.75, 7,683.75, 7,676.00, 7,667.00, 7,595.25 and 7,614.50. The 10:00 AM ET four-hour bar carried the largest decline, from 7,667.00 to 7,595.25. The low came in the 2:30 PM ET bar. The 3:30 PM ET bar then closed at 7,612.75, and the settle sat 55.75 points above the low. The 2:00 PM ET four-hour bar holds the session low and closed 56.25 above it.

The Nasdaq-100 fell 3.46 percent and the S&P 500 1.82 percent

The news items below keep their own times. None is tied to a price move here. The 30-minute bars place the high at the Thursday reopen and the low in the 2:30 PM ET bar on Friday, and the bars carry no cause.

The data came on schedule. The employment cost index was released at 8:30 AM ET on Friday, October 30, 2026, as the calendar lists it. Per the news-feed calendar and unconfirmed, it rose 0.8 percent, in line with the forecast. Federal Reserve speakers were listed for Friday by the news-feed calendar, unconfirmed, and no remarks from them were captured.

Yields eased. The provider’s ten-year yield index closed at 4.93 percent against 4.98 percent on Thursday. The dollar index’s daily record closed at 101.88 against 102.04. The volatility index closed at 19.42 against 17.20, after a session high of 23.93. In the review’s words, lower yields did not support equities on Friday.

Technology fell hardest. The S&P 500 cash index fell 1.82 percent, against 3.46 percent for the Nasdaq-100 cash index, 7.20 percent for the semiconductor index and 1.09 percent for the Dow industrials. The broad index again fell by less than technology. The provider’s commentary noted that 12 of the 30 Dow components closed higher. No sector breadth series was captured, so no sector figures are given.

Results framed the session. An online retailer and a chipmaker reported after Thursday’s close, as the calendar lists them, and the news feed headlined both results as disappointing. The news feed carried at 4:07 PM ET an item, unconfirmed, that the chipmaker’s shares fell 29 percent. At 3:25 PM ET the news feed carried an item that large technology companies hold 3 trillion dollars in spending commitments for artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The provider’s commentary tied Friday’s decline to the two sets of results, a press report on an artificial-intelligence developer’s credit rating and higher oil prices. That link is the commentary’s own.

Two oil majors reported on Friday, October 30, as the calendar lists them, one at 6:30 AM ET and the other during the day. The news feed carried the second oil major’s adjusted earnings of 5.28 dollars a share against a 4.93 estimate.

Gulf reports ran through the day. The news feed carried Friday reports of a Houthi attack on Aden airport, of vessels hit by projectiles near Lavan Island and in the Strait of Hormuz, and of a fourth tanker striking a mine in the strait. At 4:01 PM ET the news feed carried the President’s remark that “there are talks” with Iran. The provider’s commentary cited concern over possible US action against Iran after Tuesday’s elections. These are reports carried by the feeds, not confirmed events. No move is attributed to any one of them.

December WTI crude rose 2.08 percent to 104.12. December gold fell 3.29 percent and December silver 5.93 percent. No move in any of them is tied to the reports above.

Activity rose again. Friday’s December volume was 2,377,879 contracts on the 2026-10-30 row, against 1,998,904 on the revised 2026-10-29 row, a rise of 378,975 or 19.0 percent. Our Friday outlook carried the preliminary 1,926,149 for Thursday. Thursday’s open interest reads 1,936,493 on the 2026-10-29 row, against 1,931,500 for Wednesday, a rise of 4,993. Friday’s open interest was not yet reported.

The weekly positioning report for the week of October 27 was released after Friday’s close. Per the news feed, it showed equity fund speculators increasing their S&P 500 net short position to 372,747 contracts, a rise of 24,072. Per the news feed, equity fund managers raised their net long position to 917,513 contracts, a rise of 23,050.

The cash close sits beneath the model lines. The dealer-positioning dataset used here takes Thursday’s closes as its reference prices. Its 7,720 index reference matches Thursday’s 7,720.39 cash close to the whole point, and its 29,402 Nasdaq-100 reference Thursday’s 29,402.51. Thursday’s 7,720.39 less 140.32 points, a 1.82 percent decline, gives the provider’s 7,580.07 close. Its narrative states the close as 7,580.

Now the distances, in cash. The close sits 19.93 points beneath the 7,600 put-side support base (ES 7,633.93 at the measured basis, dataset pair 7,634.05). It sits 94.93 beneath the 7,675 modeled gamma-flip level (ES 7,708.93, dataset pair 7,709.05). It sits 144.93 beneath the 7,725 modeled volatility threshold (ES 7,758.93, dataset pair 7,759.05). The largest gamma concentration at 8,000 (ES pair 8,034.05) sits 419.93 points above the close and the 8,100 call-side ceiling (ES pair 8,134.05) 519.93. Then the model readings. In the dataset’s model, gamma tilt reads 0.976, gamma notional plus 136.47 million dollars and the gamma index minus 0.356. Its implied one-day move is 0.53 percent, about 40.17 points on the close, and its 25-delta risk reversal minus 0.047. The modeled threshold and flip level are model outputs; neither is an option strike.

The dataset draws its own map. Its summary lists resistance at 7,675, 7,700, 7,750 and 7,800, a dealer-positioning pivot at 7,690 and support at 7,600 and 7,400. Its key strikes are 8,000, 7,000, 7,700 and 7,750, all in cash. The close sits beneath every summary level except the 7,400 support, which sits 180.07 points beneath it. The pivot sits 109.93 above the close. At the measured basis the pivot converts to 7,723.93 and the 7,400 support to 7,433.93. The dataset’s summary keeps a cautious stance beneath the 7,690 pivot and names 7,400 as the next support beneath 7,600. Statements in the dataset about the order of intraday moves are not used; the session path here comes from the futures bars.

The console adds detail. The S&P 500 positioning console, read at 6:19 PM ET, still carried Thursday’s 7,720.39 as its last closing price. It shows a hedge level at 7,725, and model call gamma of minus 3.73 billion against put gamma of minus 3.82 billion. It puts one-month implied volatility at 12.71 percent against realised volatility of 9.72 percent. The implied-volatility rank reads 15.05 percent, the skew rank 41.60 percent and the put-to-call open-interest ratio 1.47. Its high and low volatility point fields were not used. The dataset’s gamma figures and the console’s come from different models and timestamps, and neither is summed with the other.

Damping is the question for Monday. In the review’s interpretation a cash close beneath both the modeled gamma-flip level and the put-side support base describes an environment in which dealer hedging is more likely to extend moves than to damp them. In the same interpretation, the 7,600 base now acts as resistance above the close. That reading carries no direction of its own. The primary setup sells the 7,628 to 7,636 band around the 7,633.93 conversion of that base. Its targets run toward Friday’s settle and the published target price.

The trade map for Monday

The primary setup for Monday, November 2, is a short from 7,628 to 7,636. It keeps Friday’s direction, with the band 114.00 points lower. The composite moved to 56 percent sell from 16 percent buy. Negative direction leads on the 9-day and the 14-day systems. Friday printed the largest one-day decline since 06/05, with the cash close beneath the 7,600 put-side base and the modeled gamma-flip level. Now the geometry. The whole band sits above Friday’s settle, its bottom 14.00 points up and its top 22.00. It holds the Pivot Point at 7,628.42 and the 7,633.93 conversion of the 7,600 base. The stop at 7,650 sits 14.00 above the band top and 4.70 beneath the 7,654.70 projection. The 7,650.23 retracement sits 0.23 above it. Targets step down from the band. The first, 7,614, is Friday’s settle itself. The second, 7,596, sits between the settle and the 7,575.61 target price. The extended 7,578 sits 2.39 above that target price. The evidence against is plain. In the review’s reading, the 9-day relative strength of 34.69 leaves room for a rebound, and a rebound after a 1.81 percent decline can run further than the band. The review calls the setup an analyst judgment that rebounds into the Pivot Point are sold. No measured edge stands behind it.

Now the arithmetic. From the 7,632 midpoint the risk to the stop is 18 points, 20.4 percent of the 14-day average true range of 88.39. The targets sit 18, 36 and 54 points beneath the midpoint. Exact multiples. The band sits wholly above the settle, its bottom 14.00 points up and its top 22.00. The stop sits 36.00 above the settle. The first target equals the settle, and the second and third sit 18.00 and 36.00 beneath it. A one-range frame from the settle, 7,525.61 to 7,702.39, ends 52.39 points beneath the extended target and reaches 52.39 above the stop. The invalidation line, Pivot R1 at 7,698.58, sits 48.58 above the stop.

The weekend comes first. Globex halted at 5:00 PM ET on Friday and reopens at 6:00 PM ET on Sunday, November 1, 2026. US daylight saving time ends at 2:00 AM ET that morning, as the calendar lists it, so Monday’s clock times are in standard time. In the review’s words, two days of headline exposure separate Friday’s settle from the reopen. Gap references are measured from Friday’s 7,614.00 settle. Above it sit the Pivot Point at 7,628.42, 14.42 up, and the 7,633.93 conversion, 19.93 up. Beneath it sit the published target price at 7,575.61, Friday’s 7,558.25 low and Pivot S1 at 7,543.83.

The session bands are the review’s analyst judgment. Through the night session, 6:00 PM ET Sunday to 3:00 AM ET Monday, the review expects roughly 7,560 to 7,650, with a lower bias beneath the Pivot Point at 7,628.42. That band’s top sits 21.58 above the Pivot Point. London, from 3:00 AM to 8:00 AM ET, runs roughly 7,550 to 7,655 with a neutral to lower bias beneath the Pivot Point. Manufacturing surveys are listed for Monday morning by the news-feed calendar, unconfirmed. The cash open at 9:30 AM ET is the first directional test after Friday’s close beneath the 7,600 base. Construction spending is scheduled for 10:00 AM ET on Monday, November 2, 2026, as the calendar lists it.

The morning band, 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM ET, runs roughly 7,540 to 7,670, with the 7,628 to 7,636 setup band in its upper half, its top 34.00 beneath 7,670. The afternoon band, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET, runs roughly 7,530 to 7,680. The senior loan officer survey is scheduled for 2:00 PM ET on Monday, as the calendar lists it. The calendar also lists results from a consumer-electronics company for Monday, November 2, time not confirmed. The scenario ranges, also analyst judgment, run 7,560 to 7,650 for the low-range case, 7,540 to 7,680 for the mid-range case, the most likely, and 7,500 to 7,710 for the high-range case.

Monday’s evening session opens at 6:00 PM ET. Tuesday’s midterm elections follow, per the news-feed calendar and unconfirmed. The JOLTS report is scheduled for 10:00 AM ET on Tuesday, November 3, the trade report for 8:30 AM ET on Wednesday, November 4, and the employment situation report for 8:30 AM ET on Friday, November 6, as the calendar lists them.

One path is weighted. In the review’s analyst judgment the most probable path holds the contract between two standard deviations support at 7,519.70 and one standard deviation resistance at 7,680.68. In the same judgment, a rebound toward the Pivot Point at 7,628.42 that fails beneath the 7,654.70 projection is weighted above a sustained recovery through Pivot R1 at 7,698.58. It rests on judgment. The review weighs it that way because the composite moved to 56 percent sell, negative direction leads on both systems and the cash close sits beneath the 7,600 base. In the review’s reading, the 9-day relative strength of 34.69 leaves room for a rebound. One alternative is named. A settle above Pivot R1 would invalidate the reading. The review says it would open the 7,708.93 flip-level conversion and Friday’s 7,713.00 high. The other risk runs lower. A reopen beneath Friday’s 7,558.25 low would bring Pivot S1 at 7,543.83 and two standard deviations support at 7,519.70 into play without the rebound the setup needs.

Friday’s high stopped 29.00 points short of the old band; Monday’s band sits 14.00 points above the settle, so the rebound has to come first.

The complete data picture

Every number behind Monday’s plan, charted first, then the full level lists, then the complete numeric reference underneath.

Sources and methodology

This outlook is built from our session review of the December E-mini S&P 500 contract, the December ’26 contract, prepared after Friday’s close on October 30, 2026 for the Monday, November 2, 2026 session. Friday’s completed extremes are the inputs behind the published pivot ladder: Pivot R3 at 7,853.33 less Pivot S3 at 7,389.08, divided by three, and Pivot R2 at 7,783.17 less Pivot S2 at 7,473.67, divided by two, both return 154.75, and three times the 7,628.42 Pivot Point less the settle gives a high-plus-low sum of 15,271.26, which the pair of 7,713.00 and 7,558.25 reproduces to the published rounding at 15,271.25. The provider’s settlement row and the chart’s completed Friday daily bar carry the same 7,709.25 open, 7,713.00 high, 7,558.25 low and 7,614.00 settle. Those figures, the 30-minute bars of the December contract from the Thursday 6:00 PM ET reopen and the review’s own statements are the only evidence used to grade Friday’s card; times of day come from those bars and are Eastern time. Thursday’s volume now reads 1,998,904 contracts on the revised 2026-10-29 row, which replaces the preliminary 1,926,149 carried in Friday’s outlook, and that row’s open interest reads 1,936,493; that post was not changed. Friday’s open interest was not yet reported.

The moving averages were computed from the provider’s 260-session daily settlement series through Friday and rounded once to the 0.25 tick. The oscillators and range averages are cited as published, read at 6:24 PM ET on Friday with Globex closed. The dealer-positioning dataset uses Thursday’s closes as its reference prices and a fixed 34.05 point translation for its futures column, so cash equivalents here use the 33.93 point basis measured on Friday, settlement against cash close. The dataset’s statements about the order of intraday moves are not used. The dataset’s gamma figures and the console’s call and put gamma are separate model measures from different timestamps; they are shown side by side, each with its source, and never combined. The console’s high and low volatility point fields are not used. The weekly positioning figures are from the report for the week of October 27, per the news feed. Company results are described generically. Scenario ranges are analyst judgment. Items marked unconfirmed come from the news-feed calendar, and every catalyst whose release time had passed at the time of writing is recorded as completed.

Friday’s outlook for this contract is here, and the Nasdaq-100 contract’s Friday outlook set the levels for the index whose cash close fell 3.46 percent on Friday. Outlooks for ES, NQ, GC and CL are collected on the market outlook page, and our forward trading record is on the performance statement.

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