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Aerial view of scattered people crossing a large city square, a visual metaphor for weak market breadth with few stocks participating

What Is Market Breadth Telling Overnight Traders? 4 Readings Under a Near-Record S&P 500

Posted by By spy team October 14, 2026Posted inBlog
Aerial view of scattered people crossing a large city square, a visual metaphor for weak market breadth with few stocks participating

An index can sit near its record while most of the stocks inside it are in a downtrend. That is the situation market breadth exists to describe, and it is roughly where the S&P 500 has been for most of the past two months. The index printed an intraday record

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Magnifying glass over printed line charts and red and blue pencils, illustrating an October overnight recap audit of SPY pressure readings

Where Did the Pressure Reading Miss? An October Overnight Recap of 24 SPY Sessions

Posted by By spy team October 14, 2026Posted inBlog
Magnifying glass over printed line charts and red and blue pencils, illustrating an October overnight recap audit of SPY pressure readings

The rolling scorecard on the SpyTomorrow homepage now reads 19 of 24 correct, or 79.2%, covering sessions from September 4 through October 12, 2026. Three weeks ago, in our September overnight recap, the same scorecard read 17 of 24. The number went up. This October overnight recap is

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Trading SPY before CPI: trader marking a wall calendar to plan overnight positions around CPI, PPI and bank earnings in mid-October

Trading SPY Before CPI When the Fed Is Hiking: 3 Back-to-Back Overnights, Oct. 12–15

Posted by By spy team October 9, 2026Posted inBlog

Most catalyst weeks have one loaded night. The week of October 12 has three in a row. Bank earnings land before Tuesday’s open, September CPI lands before Wednesday’s, and PPI plus retail sales land before Thursday’s. If you are trading SPY before CPI this month, the real question is not

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How to Start Swing Trading: A 30-Day Onramp Before You Risk Real Money

Posted by By spy team October 6, 2026Posted inBlog
Hand holding a pen over an open planner beside a laptop, mapping out how to start swing trading with a 30-day beginner plan

Most guides on how to start swing trading open with chart patterns. That is backwards. The first month is not about finding trades. It is about building the setup, the habits and the record-keeping that let you survive the trades you will eventually get wrong. Strategy can wait four weeks.

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Closed notebook, pen and coffee cup on a quiet wooden desk, a picture of the deliberate no-trade night that helps prevent overtrading

Overtrading Without Tilt: 5 Fixes for the Nightly-Trade Habit

Posted by By spy team October 5, 2026Posted inBlog

Most overtrading doesn’t look like anything. There’s no blown account, no keyboard thrown across the room, no tilt. It looks like a calm person sitting down at 3:45 p.m. ET, the same as every other day, and finding a reason to hold something overnight. Then doing it again tomorrow. And

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Trader marking dates on an October calendar to avoid common swing trading mistakes around holidays, dividends and overnight holds

6 Swing Trading Mistakes That Have Nothing to Do With Picking Direction

Posted by By spy team October 2, 2026Posted inBlog
Six operational swing trading mistakes overnight traders make: ex-dividend gaps, market orders after hours, holiday closures, wash sales and ES vs SPY mix-ups.
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SPY Gap Statistics by Day of the Week: Is the Monday Gap Really Bigger?

SPY Gap Statistics by Day of the Week: Is the Monday Gap Really Bigger?

Posted by By spy team October 1, 2026Posted inBlog
Weekly planner page showing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, illustrating SPY gap statistics by day of the week

Ask a room of swing traders which overnight is the riskiest and most will say the weekend. Three calendar days of news, no regular session to react in, and a Monday open that has to price all of it at once. It sounds obvious. So we checked it against a

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Overnight Swing Trading vs Day Trading: What the Research on Overnight Returns Really Means

Posted by By spy team September 30, 2026Posted inBlog
London financial district skyline at night, when the European open drives overnight vs intraday returns in S&P 500 futures

There is a statistic that circulates every few months on trading forums: nearly all of the stock market’s long-run gain has come while the market was closed. Buy at the close, sell at the open, and you supposedly captured the whole move while day traders churned for nothing.

The statistic

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ES Futures Fair Value: Why ‘Futures Up 20’ Can Still Mean SPY Opens Red

Posted by By spy team September 29, 2026Posted inBlog
ES futures fair value explained: why futures up 20 can still mean SPY opens red, how to compute the implied open, and the 9:30 quirks overnight traders miss.
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Weathered stop sign beside a traffic light at night, illustrating how a stop loss overnight sits dormant while SPY gaps

Does a Stop Loss Overnight Actually Protect You? The Gap Math, Worked Out

Posted by By spy team September 28, 2026Posted inBlog
Weathered stop sign beside a traffic light at night, illustrating how a stop loss overnight sits dormant while SPY gaps

Most swing traders set a stop, close the laptop, and sleep better for it. The stop feels like a floor. But a stop loss overnight is not a floor. It is an instruction that waits for the next regular session, and by the time it wakes up, the price it

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