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Issue #85 · Tuesday, October 20, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 18.7 ▲ from 18.4 yesterday | | Worth noting Amazon (AMZN) moved +4.98% on the day. | | Nasdaq rose over 1% while oil surged past $109 on Middle East tensions; earnings season accelerates beyond tech. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,690.73 +0.41%
-1.49% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,430.89 +1.11%
-2.99% this week | | Dow Jones | 51,966.03 -0.07%
+0.22% this week | | Russell 2000 | 2,728.30 +0.25%
-2.37% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | AMZN Amazon | +4.98% | | TSLA Tesla | +3.76% | | NVDA Nvidia | +1.38% |
| Laggards | META Meta | -0.55% | | AAPL Apple | -0.15% | | ^DJI Dow Jones | -0.07% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
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● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Between its 50-day (7,705.08) and 200-day (7,275.66) averages — a trend in transition. 30-day range 7,551.81–7,818.93; currently in the middle third of that range. RSI(14) 52 — momentum roughly neutral. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What are pre-market and after-hours? Trading sessions outside the main 9:30–4:00 window. Prices can move on overnight news, but volume is thin, so those moves sometimes don't hold once the regular session opens. |
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“Markets are a description of today, not a forecast of tomorrow.” |
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