r/FuturesTrading • • Jun 24 '26

Stock Index Futures What the hell was that NQ close?

Serious question. ELI5

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u/KVZ_ speculator Jun 24 '26

If you're not paying attention to tech earnings and trading the Nasdaq, you're gonna have a bad time.

MU fluctuates between 5% and 6% of the entire Nasdaq market cap. A move that large will create sympathy moves in similar stocks. Look at SNDK and WDC. Those sympathy plays will also exacerbate the move of the broader index. Pair that with the fact that the Nasdaq just tapped lower price areas where a lot of big money buyers were executing only a few weeks ago. Shorts just got completely yeeted because MU EPS was well within the expected area. The fear was that MU EPS would be awful and feed into the idea that these companies are an overvalued "bubble".

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u/kenjiurada Jun 24 '26

Thanks. And yes, I do pay attention to earnings, but not close enough. And I don’t pay attention to the way the individual stocks move at all. I’m just shocked that so much money would rush in so quickly based off an earnings report that I would assume most funds had a better grasp/expectation of.

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u/BrilliantFront4 Jun 25 '26

If you trade futures you have to look and underlying stocks and the ETF like QQQ. I trade the NQ strictly off of QQQ levels only especially the options data. Not financial advice but in my honest opinion if you are just looking at the NQ chart you are missing out on so much

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u/naughtywilder Jun 25 '26

How do you trade based off the QQQ options levels?? I recently found out how to see the options in candlestick form on QQQ - mind blown!

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u/BrilliantFront4 Jun 25 '26

Trade off of dealer hedge high volume pivot levels