Daily brief archive

Market context, options risk and one lesson at a time. Historical observations, dated in New York time — educational only.

• 2026-11-05Narrow pass fails: SPY plunges 4.35% through every shelf to a new window low

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• 2026-11-04Dow soars 3% after the sweep — SPY closes inside the lost zone, not above it

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• 2026-11-03The low held, nothing was reclaimed — the break ends a third day in force

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• 2026-11-02The bounce never reached the zone: SPY closes $751.83 and the break holds

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• 2026-10-30Zone lost on the close: SPY falls 1.77% as Intel and Reddit drop about 29%

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• 2026-10-29Zone held on the close, shelf untested — Nasdaq falls 1.38% as Alphabet slides

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• 2026-10-28SPY pokes above the shelf, closes inside it at $772.31 — big tech splits after hours

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• 2026-10-27SPY closes above the zone at $769.66 — the $772.28-$773.25 shelf is next

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• 2026-10-26SPY closes back above $760.64 — Friday's break cancelled, zone top still ahead

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• 2026-10-23SPY closes below the range low — the Oct 12-22 range breaks on the Friday close

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• 2026-10-22SPY closes below its support zone at $763.96 — a narrow fail; the range low still holds

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• 2026-10-21SPY closes above its shelf at $774.31 — a narrow pass; the retest is still to come

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• 2026-10-20Breadth flipped, SPY retook its 50-day line by a whisker — QQQ did not

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• 2026-10-19Nasdaq +1.1% on a megacap bounce — breadth and QQQ say the trend is not repaired

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• 2026-10-16Nasdaq caps worst week since June as AI rout deepens and oil tops $100

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• 2026-10-15Dow jumps 556 points in a rotation out of AI — Nasdaq claws back to +0.1%

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• 2026-10-14Nasdaq drops 1.9% as hot core CPI and an AI sell-off hit stocks

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• 2026-10-13Indexes slip on bank and chip selling; Dow gives back a 0.9% morning gain

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• 2026-10-12Dow climbs as tech drags S&P 500 and Nasdaq lower before bank earnings

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• 2026-10-09A green index day can hide single-stock risk

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• 2026-10-08AI doubt and oil spike: S&P -0.5%, Nasdaq -1.3%, Dow green on yield retreat

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• 2026-10-0710Y hits 24-year high of 5.36%, stocks slip from records; minutes keep one more hike live

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• 2026-10-06S&P 500 joins Nasdaq at record highs as bond yields back off

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• 2026-10-05Nasdaq closes at record as AI megacaps rally; 10Y hits 24-year high

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• 2026-10-02Bad news is good news: soft payrolls kill the October hike — Nasdaq nears record

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