NQ Session Recap — Thursday, October 1, 2026

NQ gapped up 104.25 points at the open on Thursday, October 1, 2026 and settled at 30,772.75, +80.50 points (+0.26%) versus the prior regular-session close. The regular session traded a 354.25-point range between 30,529.25 and 30,883.50, closing in the upper part of the range.

Overnight trade ahead of the open ranged from 30,684.50 to 31,151.50. The day session took out the overnight low, which is worth logging if you track overnight-range behavior as part of your prep.

Price built a 295.25-point initial balance (09:30–10:30 ET, 30,560.75–30,856.00) and traded through both sides of it — a double-break session that punished one-directional assumptions.

Session volume totaled roughly 787,266 contracts across the trading day, with about 594,818 traded during regular hours.

One session is a data point, not a pattern. The way to use a day like this is to compare it against the distribution: how often NQ breaks its initial balance in this direction, what range expansion typically follows, and how similar sessions resolved. Profitabul's paid report engine computes exactly those statistics over historical sessions.