SPY: Halfway Is a Charting Convention, Not a Fibonacci RatioThe Halfway Line Is Useful Without Being a Fibonacci Ratio
The 50% line on a Fibonacci drawing is a common retracement convention. It is not a Fibonacci ratio. Its usefulness comes from defining a consistent halfway reference for a selected swing, not from a mathematical guarantee that price must reverse there.
The attached SPY example uses the identified daily upswing from September 16 low 749.60 to October 6 high 781.62. The range is 32.02 points. Half is 16.01; subtracting that from the hig
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A Red Candle Can Still Finish Above Yesterday's CloseA Red Candle Can Still Finish Above Yesterday's Close
Candle color and day-over-day change use different comparisons. A standard red body means the close is below that candle's open. A positive daily percentage means the close is above the previous close. A gap can allow both descriptions to be true at once.
The marked October 6 QQQ candle provides a historical teaching example inside the chart reviewed on October 15. It opened at 760.52 and closed at 759.66, making a red body of 0.86 points.
NUGT - 2X Bullish Reversal Setup: Deep 35% Target$255🟡 NUGT - 2X Bullish Reversal Setup: Deep 35% Dip Eyes $255 Target
🎯 Critical Price Zones
🟢 Staged Accumulation Scale-In: $118.00 / $125.00 / $132.00
🔴 Invalidation / Structural Stop: Below $100.00 (Daily Close)
🏁 Macro Upside Target: $255.00 (100%+ Expansion)
Following an explosive impulsive advance from $100 up to $220, Direxion Daily Gold Miners Index Bull 2X Shares (NUGT) has completed an aggressive ~35% corrective markdown directly into the $132.00 demand pocket. This deep pullback establi
IWM 271.63 oversold major support's + Jim Cramer bearish biasAMEX:IWM why short the market with IWM down daily 45degrees and now at critical support's?? unlike 2008 and 2022 after a good 10-15 days drop it recovered and pumped higher, why wouldn't that be different now when it's back at previous support level's and everyone fearful as well as Jim Cramer saying on X 8 hours ago , there are no stopping bear's... damn that'S your bullish sign.
IWM 1D: back on the first gap April left openThe last Accumulate stamp on this chart is 373 bars old, and that is the point. It fell at the April 2025 low, under the reference line, when AMEX:IWM was trading in the low 170s. Since then the panel has read NO ACCUMULATION for every single session: price left the zone above the reference and never came back to it. The layer has not spoken in a year and a half. That silence is the design, not a gap in coverage - the structure layer marks where a base was built, and it marks it rarely.
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Earnings Market And Where We Going There are no rate cuts on the table — in fact, there is no table. Stop listening to the noise.
Gang, look at July 29 through August 5. Those SPY and QQQ rallies were real — fresh institutional money creating a tight power trend fueled by new cash coming out of the $60T institutional lake.
But everything after August 5 became pure short covering. No new money from the $60T lake controlled by the three powerful institutions — Vanguard, Fidelity, and T. Rowe Price — who, remember, do NOT control
CPI day: the signal printed, the tape said noWednesday's CPI printed hot — core 0.3% month-over-month against 0.2% expected — and the morning tape belonged to the sellers from the start. QQQ gapped down, and at 09:35 the long signal printed at ~738.50. The sequence was complete: 5m W-shape with forming RSI divergence, a deep SMI washout, a 1m golden cross for the trigger. It spiked to 740.50 within fifteen minutes — then spent the rest of the session giving it back, closing near 728. SPY told the same story: a 09:40 print near 775.50, then
$SPY & $SPX — Levels for Thursday, October 15, 2026🔮 AMEX:SPY & SP:SPX — Levels for Thursday, October 15, 2026
📊 Key U.S. Economic Data (ET)
8:30 AM | Core PPI m/m | Forecast: 0.3% | Previous: 0.2%
8:30 AM | Core Retail Sales m/m | Forecast: 0.6% | Previous: 1.4%
8:30 AM | PPI m/m | Forecast: 0.6% | Previous: 0.4%
8:30 AM | Retail Sales m/m | Forecast: 0.3% | Previous: 1.2%
8:30 AM | Philly Fed Manufacturing Index | Forecast: 28.2 | Previous: 37.8
8:30 AM | Unemployment Claims | Forecast: 199K | Previous: 197K
11:30 PM | Fed Speake
SQQQ: Bulish Setup Is In Place.TIME to go long on SQQQ ladies and gentlemen, you know the drill.
Daily targets are on the table .
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DRAM: Breakout And RetestRoundhill Memory ETF (CBOE: DRAM) closed its latest trading session at $57.19. The fund remains in a technical bear market, down nearly 30% from its 52 week high of $81.34. The primary catalysts driving current market behavior include massive institutional outflows and shifting AI dynamics.
Technical view:
DRAM is on a bullish motion. The ETF recently broke below its trend support line at $59.70, after a few months of scaling partially on highs and lows pattern, in respect to the framework. Pri
SMH at weekly ema20 566$ major support see it go up ...NASDAQ:SMH weekly 20ema is a place (green line) where since May2025 always bounced off it. So I see it bounce today since it's also down like 6 days in a row ish! Be careful of the higher low's! trading inside a bear flag also the white trend lines.. Monthly chart veryyy overbought I see it drop 40% but not now, I see it happening more on November-January. That is only if stays over support white line, if drops under and go under it'S 200ema day I would turn bearish and a pump not likely at all
QQQ GEX - Hot CPI, Negative GEX, 730 Put Wall in FocusQQQ backed off a test of 740 after a hotter-than-expected CPI print, and the 10-year yield is pushing higher with it. PPI is due tomorrow.
Near 737, on the October 23 cumulative profile (9 DTE), price is inside the put cluster and still above the largest put wall. 730 is the level in focus.
🔶 Regime Context 🔶
HVL is at 746. Below it, QQQ is in a negative GEX regime, where price tends to be less stable than above the pivot. The put cluster starts at 742 and runs down through 740 and 734 towar
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A stop is an instruction, not a price: a year of SPY gapsHow a backtest fills a stop decides what its drawdown means. TradingView's own emulator does the honest thing: when a bar opens through your stop, it fills at the open. A spreadsheet that books the stop price on every loss does not. Here is what that difference looked like over the last year on the most liquid index ETF there is.
AMEX:SPY, daily bars, 2025-10-10 to 2026-10-09. 251 bars, so 250 overnight gaps. Split-adjusted, regular session only, recomputed from the feed rather than quoted:
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Research 14.10.2026🌏 Markets:
AMEX:SPY -2.26 -0.29%(pre/m)
NASDAQ:QQQ -4.28 -0.58%(pre/m)
🆕 Economic News:
Wall St futures turn lower after hotter-than-expected September CPI; chip stocks stay under pressure after ASML results
08:30 USA – CPI (Sep)
13:30 USA – Fed Barkin Speech
14:00 USA – Fed Beige Book
14:00 USA – Monthly Budget Statement
22:55 USA – Fed Bowman Speech
📈 Gap Ups
Reaction to earnings/guidance:
NYSE:BLK , NYSE:MS
Other news:
NASDAQ:LQDA soars after a global settle
SPY Is Trading Above 779.37 Premarket, CPI Decides The Close.SPY Is Trading Above 779.37 Premarket, CPI Decides The Close.
SPY is trading near 779.70 premarket, just above the 779.37 August high it has traded through on three sessions in the past week without a close above. A new hourly bullish announcement printed at 779.32 in the 4 am ET hour, and the hourly structure is impulse continuation to the upside, with the traffic light yellow and a high-sweep anti-signal active. On the 4H the structure is in transition with a bearish tilt and the light is gre
$SPY & $SPX — Levels for Wednesday, October 14, 2026🔮 AMEX:SPY & SP:SPX — Levels for Wednesday, October 14, 2026
📊 Key U.S. Economic Data (ET)
8:30 AM | Core CPI m/m | Forecast: 0.2% | Previous: 0.3%
8:30 AM | Core CPI y/y | Forecast: 2.5% | Previous: 2.4%
8:30 AM | CPI m/m | Forecast: 0.6% | Previous: 0.4%
8:30 AM | CPI y/y | Forecast: 3.6% | Previous: 3.4%
⚠️ For informational purposes only. Not financial advice.
📌 #CPI #Inflation
Same SPY chart. Why do the VWAP lines disagree?VWAP depends on where its calculation begins . Change the starting point and you change the history included in the average.
It adds each bar’s source price multiplied by volume, then divides by total volume since the anchor. Here the source is HLC3: the average of each bar’s high, low and close.
Session VWAP starts again each trading session. It answers a question about that session’s volume-weighted price history.
Week VWAP starts again at the beginning of the trading week. Later sessions
SPY: busy closing volume is not a direction signalSPY’s closing half-hour looks busy. That is not enough to choose a side.
The native Session Block Profile table on this 15-minute SPY chart uses 30-minute New York session blocks. It shows 60 completed sessions and seven excluded sessions. Read the 15:30–16:00 row:
• Volume: 2.78x
• Range: 0.91x
• Efficiency: 0.44
These are historical medians. Range and volume are normalized against each session’s typical block before aggregation. The volume reading is not a claim that the current bar traded
Spy at a Crossroads : Breakout Energy or Another Bull Trap💹 SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | 15-Minute Outlook
SPY is showing a sharp rebound from the demand zone, with buyers pushing price towards overhead supply. The next move depends on whether bulls can turn this recovery into a sustained breakout—or sellers step in again.
🔑 THE LEVELS THAT MATTER
📍 Current Price: $778.06
⚪ POC / Key Pivot: $777.71
🔴 Supply Zone: Around $778.00–$778.20
🔵 Demand Zone: Around $777.15–$777.40
🟢 BULLISH PLAY | Buyers Take Control
A decisive 15-minute close above the supply























