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NQ Daily Outlook | November 20, 20251H timeframe — 50 EMA (black) for trend + 5/10 EMAs (white) for momentum/BOS. Quick read: Price broke above the 5/10 EMAs and cleared the 50 EMA with a strong impulse. All EMAs are now below price, so we’re in a bullish state for the first time in a while. Bullish idea (favored) Now that we’re above all EMAs, I’m looking for: A small pullback into the whites A bullish BOS Then continuation higher As long as we stay above the 50 EMA, momentum stays bullish. Bearish idea Only shifts bearish again if: We drop back under the 5/10 EMAs Lose the 50 EMA Print a BOS down Until that happens, shorts are lower probability. Bias: Bullish — EMAs reclaimed + impulse confirms momentum. I’m looking for continuation up unless we lose the whites and fall back under the 50 EMA.
CME_MINI:NQ1!
by icixbt
Derivatives & Options Trading Trends1. Rising Retail Participation and Democratization of Derivatives One of the most significant trends is the rapid increase in retail participation, especially in markets like India, the U.S., and parts of Asia. Platforms such as Robinhood, Zerodha, Upstox, and Interactive Brokers have made derivatives trading more accessible by offering low-cost or zero-brokerage models, simplified interfaces, and educational tools. In India, index options volumes on NSE have surged to record highs, driven by weekly and even daily options expiries. Retail traders now actively participate in directional and non-directional strategies including spreads, straddles, strangles, and intraday scalping. Because of lower margin requirements and high leverage, derivatives have become an attractive entry point for younger traders. This democratization comes with both opportunities and risks. While broader participation enhances market depth and liquidity, it also increases systemic concerns around over-leverage, herd behaviour, and inadequate understanding of derivatives mechanics. 2. Explosive Growth of Weekly and Short-Dated Options Short-tenor options—weekly, daily, and even zero-day options (0DTE)—have become a global phenomenon. The U.S. S&P 500 Index (SPX) now sees major volumes in 0DTE options, favoured by traders for intraday speculation, gamma exposure, and event-driven strategies. Similarly, in India, weekly Bank Nifty and Nifty expiries have turned into some of the most traded options worldwide. Traders prefer these contracts for: Lower premiums Quick payoff realization High volatility leading to strong intraday movements Flexibility to align with macro events (Fed decisions, CPI data, RBI policy, earnings, etc.) Short-dated options have reshaped intraday volatility patterns, with large swings near expiry due to gamma effects and dealer hedging flows. 3. 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Markets are faster, more interconnected, and more complex than ever before. Whether used for hedging, speculation, arbitrage, or portfolio diversification, derivatives remain a cornerstone of modern financial markets. As the global environment becomes more uncertain, derivatives will continue to play a crucial role in risk management and trading innovation—shaping the next era of financial markets.
CME_MINI:MNQ1!Education
by GlobalWolfStreet
Pure signal reading. Here’s how I’m reading NQ right now.I’m tracking NASDAQ 100 e-mini futures (NQ) on the 15-minute using my Quant Master Trend System — the same model I use to separate real directional pressure from intraday noise. This entire chart is a perfect example of why most traders get chopped to death: they trade emotions, but I trade structure. The ribbon is choppy, fragmented, and constantly flipping, which is exactly what I expect when Market Weather is labeled CHOPPY in the panel. That mode tells me one thing: Breakouts fail. Breakdowns fail. Momentum has no conviction. When the system is in CHOPPY mode, every pullback looks like a setup, but it’s not — the model purposely suppresses continuation trades and fires more TP clusters because it’s detecting distribution, not trend. You can see it clearly: • Every time the ribbon tries to go green, it gets rejected within a handful of bars. • Every red flip lacks strong downside extension — everything fizzles. • Price oscillates around the volatility stop instead of respecting it. • TP clusters fire rapidly — that’s your model’s “don’t trust this move” signature. Even the Quant Buy signals tell the story. They’re valid moves, but they’re short-lived, because the underlying pressure isn’t unified. That’s the entire point of this system: it’s telling you the environment, not just the direction. The deviation reading is mild at Z ≈ -0.38, which means price isn’t stretched in either direction — the perfect recipe for messy intraday action. So here’s how I’m interpreting this: This is not a trending environment. This is rotational flow, liquidity probing both sides, and no clean edge. The ribbon’s behavior, the failed retests, the compression, and the constant TP firing confirm that NQ is stuck in a structure where continuation trades have the lowest probability. Until Market Weather leaves CHOPPY and we get a clean ribbon alignment, I’m treating everything as low conviction and short-duration.
CME_MINI:NQ1!
by CustomQuantLabs
NQ 15 MIN Overall Idea (Not financial advice) The chart shows a price pattern forming after a strong move upward and downward, followed by a consolidation phase. The diagram highlights targets, supports, and a gap fill area, helping determine bullish vs. bearish scenarios. Wave Structure (A → E) (Not financial advice) On the left side, there's a labeled price swing (A–B–C–D–E). This represents a sequence of higher-lows and lower-highs, ending at point (E). Point (E) acts as the base from which the next structure begins. Triangle Wedge Pattern (Not financial advice) Right after point (E), the market forms a tightening triangular structure Upper descending line seller pressure Lower ascending line buyer pressure This pattern shows compression before a larger movement. Gap Fill Area (Not financial advice) The GAP FILL zone inside the triangle marks an area where price previously skipped quickly. Price often returns to such zones, creating temporary support or a magnet before continuation Price Targets (Not financial advice) 1ST TARGET Primary upside objective if price breaks above the triangle. 2ND TARGET A farther target indicating strong bullish expansion. Support Levels (Not financial advice) 1ST SUPPORT Closest support maintains bullish structure. 2ND SUPPORT A deeper structural support. 3ST SUPPORT Strongest support and major turning point. Bullish vs. Bearish Line (Not financial advice) The dashed horizontal line at the bottom marks the key boundary Above → bullish Below → bearish
CME_MINI:NQ1!
by WIZARDTRENDS
#202546 - priceactiontds - weekly update – nasdaq e-miniGood Evening and I hope you are well. comment: Again, not much difference to dax. Also in a triangle and for now I highly doubt we will see a big range expansion out of 24600 - 25500. We had two weeks where the bears showed strength but what do they have to show for? We closed above 25000 in both weeks. That’s still as bullish as it gets. Only a bearish daily close below 24600 could change my outlook. current market cycle: trading range 24000 - 26500 / 4h chart it’s a triangle 24700 - 25500 key levels for next week: 24500 - 25500 bull case: Bulls bought 24700 heavily again and closed the week above 25000. Bears can have no confidence in shorts when we rally for 667 points after a 1095 point drop. Problem for the bulls is that they also have to be very careful with buying high again since the downside can be huge. Which will likely mean that we won’t see much interest in buying above 25400ish. Even longing 25000 when we can drop down to 24600 or lower, is a tough trade. Invalidation is below 24709. bear case: Every dip is heavily bought. Has not changed. Can only become more bearish with a daily close below 24000 and that’s far. 25830 is likely the stop, most bears have to have for most shorts next week. That’s a big range and it any short below 25300 from being decent imo. We are making lower highs and lower lows but the lower lows just barely. Until that changes, we will most likely continue sideways in the given range. Invalidation is above 25830. short term: Neutral around 25000. Short closer to 25700 and longs closer to 25600. medium-long term - Update from 2024-11-02: Market went further in the wrong direction so my targets become increasingly unrealistic. Right now the 50% retracement is 21750 and would mean a 18% drop. That’s a bit too much to ask for as of now. 24150 is the breakout-retest of the prior ath from 2024-12 and a more realistic target.
CME_MINI:MNQ1!
by priceactiontds
NQ Power Range Report with FIB Ext - 11/20/2025 SessionCME_MINI:NQZ2025 - PR High: 25110.75 - PR Low: 24955.50 - NZ Spread: 211.5 Key scheduled economic events: 08:30 | Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index 10:00 | Existing Home Sales Session Open Stats (As of 12:15 AM) - Session Open ATR: 478.35 - Volume: 49K - Open Int: 292K - Trend Grade: Long - From BA ATH: -4.6% (Rounded) Key Levels (Rounded - Think of these as ranges) - Long: 26636 - Mid: 25410 - Short: 24039 Keep in mind this is not speculation or a prediction. Only a report of the Power Range with Fib extensions for target hunting. Do your DD! You determine your risk tolerance. You are fully capable of making your own decisions. BA: Back Adjusted BuZ/BeZ: Bull Zone / Bear Zone NZ: Neutral Zone
CME_MINI:NQZ2025Long
by mv3trader5
NQ Power Range Report with FIB Ext - 11/24/2025 SessionCME_MINI:NQZ2025 - PR High: 24555.25 - PR Low: 24455.25 - NZ Spread: 223.5 No key scheduled economic events Low participation expected for short Thanksgiving holiday week Session Open Stats (As of 12:05 AM) - Session Open ATR: 533.61 - Volume: 41K - Open Int: 298K - Trend Grade: Long - From BA ATH: -7.4% (Rounded) Key Levels (Rounded - Think of these as ranges) - Long: 26636 - Mid: 25410 - Short: 24039 Keep in mind this is not speculation or a prediction. Only a report of the Power Range with Fib extensions for target hunting. Do your DD! You determine your risk tolerance. You are fully capable of making your own decisions. BA: Back Adjusted BuZ/BeZ: Bull Zone / Bear Zone NZ: Neutral Zone
CME_MINI:NQZ2025
by mv3trader5
Bitcoin Is Crashing… Nasdaq Still at Highs. Who’s Lying?For years, Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 have shown consistently high correlation, driven by the same macro forces: • global liquidity cycles, • risk appetite, • real-rate expectations, • and flows into high-beta growth assets. Both are classic risk-on instruments—they benefit when liquidity expands and suffer when uncertainty rises. However, the chart above shows a significant decoupling over the past weeks: 🔻 BINANCE:BTCUSDT : Deep Correction & Negative YTD • Down more than 25% from the highs • Trading –5% YTD in USD terms • Volatility expanding and long liquidations accelerating • Risk sentiment turning sharply lower within crypto 🔺 LSE:NQ11 : Near All-Time Highs • Still hovering close to ATH levels • Posting +16% YTD in USD • Supported by strong earnings, mega-cap tech flows, and continued growth leadership ⚠️ This divergence is unusual — and historically meaningful BTC and Nasdaq rarely disconnect to this magnitude without one of two outcomes: 1️⃣ Bitcoin Is Leading the Next Risk-Off Move Crypto often reacts faster to changes in liquidity conditions and risk appetite. If this is another leading signal, equities (especially high-beta tech) may follow with a lag. 2️⃣ Correlation Break Is Temporary If the move was primarily crypto-specific (liquidations, funding resets, derivatives unwinds), BTC could mean-revert upward as flows stabilize. 📌 Our View Historically, when divergences of this scale have appeared: Bitcoin leads, equities follow. The magnitude of BTC’s correction vs the Nasdaq’s resilience suggests that: 👉 BTC may be pricing in a shift in risk conditions ahead of equities, not the opposite. The key question for the next weeks: Is the Nasdaq ignoring a message that crypto is already discounting?
CME_MINI:NQ1!Short
by OrbisInvestment
NASDAQ 100: Same Song, Different LyricsAfter a 12% pullback, NQ is retesting price levels from 400 days ago, and to many, it looks like a crash is coming. But what’s really driving the jitters? 1.Apple’s sales concerns & downgrades 2.Tariff fears (that haven’t even been imposed yet) 3.Doomsday takes on the U.S. economy Sounds familiar? Same melody, just different words. Yes, the stop is wide, but the profit target from here is at least 5X. The question is—who sees an opportunity, and at what levels?
CME_MINI:NQ1!Long
by onlytrade2win
1
NQ Weekly Recap | November 10–14, 2025Method: I track impulse/correction and BOS (break of structure). Trend filter is the 50 EMA (black); momentum/trigger EMAs are the 5 & 10 (white). Recap Mon: Clear upside impulse with BOS up. White EMAs above the black 50 → bullish continuation vibe. Tue: Early follow‑through, then momentum faded; corrections got deeper and EMAs started to flatten. Wed: Failed attempts to hold above the white EMAs, then a clean BOS down as price slipped under the black 50 → trend flipped. Thu: Follow‑through short. Lower highs into the white EMAs; corrections kept getting sold while staying below the black 50. Fri: Flush then sharp bounce. Price reclaimed the white EMAs intraday but stalled around the black 50—looks corrective; no full BOS up yet. Takeaways Early week was bullish. Midweek we failed below the EMAs and followed shorts. The late‑week bounce is just a correction unless we get a fresh BOS up and hold above the EMAs with the black 50 turning back up.
CME_MINI:NQ1!
by icixbt
NQ Range (11-10-25, Week 7)The 7 week Forecast is in the final week and we are up about 300 points after getting rejected at upper Target. NAZ back in the Churn Zone and did U Turn off Friday lows just under the Mid Level CZ. KL 483 is TZ to 25,333. Key fact is the NAZ and NDX are at long tern TL. Under the TL is Danger Zone to lower CZ and then TLX 24,056. Current range to watch is 25,333 and 24,817. Friday lift was Failed Auction up and these usually will get retested. Could be a start of a U Turn (that will drop and retest). Or, just another Friday pump drop offset that will trap the BTD/FOMO's.
CME_MINI:NQ1!
by MAZing
43
"It's Me Again, Margaret"Ajax, aka Monster Head & Shoulders, is back again. He has been dominating our charts since 9/16. His neckline: 24680 Buy the Dip area 1: 24640 - 24570 Buy the Dip area 2: 24550 - 24500 Pullbacks are a normal part of bull markets. We are ~4% off the high. Correction territory is 10% or more. As Day Traders we welcome pullbacks as opportunities to trade the same Px zone at least one more time. This one is due to the govt. shutdown and the resulting lack of economic data as well as the economic losses, profit taking after the Dow posted two all-time highs in a row, and concern about over valuation especially of tech stocks. All a normal and healthy part of the markets. One major attraction of the Nasdaq 100 to us as day traders are its big swings. It gives more opportunity for Px action and profits than the other markets. He has a new Breakout Ladder set @ 24770. every 20 points he will buy 1 contract. Each and every target will be 19 points. Above you can see the BTD areas. This neckline may turn out to be a good BTD area. I'd wait until at least 09:50 NY Time before placing a BTD trade above the green shaded BTD areas. From 9/16 to the present this support zone has been a very important one. Let's see if it holds.
CME_MINI:MNQ1!
by Sidgate