Oct 29, 2025 Loss 157
Today is Wednesday, October 29, 2025,
and this is your daily Nasdaq futures recap.
Market News
It’s a packed day for the markets.
At 7:00 am, the MBA 30-year mortgage rate came out.
At 8:30 am, we got September wholesale inventories, followed by pending home sales at 10:00 am.
Then the big one: at 2:00 pm, the FOMC statement and Fed interest rate decision,
and at 2:30 pm, Chair Powell’s press conference.
After the closing bell, Microsoft, Meta, and Google all report earnings.
Definitely a huge lineup for traders today.
Overnight Session
6:00 PM to 3:00 AM
At 8:30 pm, as the Asian markets opened, Nasdaq started to climb. Our short position slipped into an unrealized loss,
and by 9:30 pm, Nasdaq jumped sharply higher.We closed the short and flipped long to follow the momentum.
Morning Session
6:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The market was quiet early on as traders waited for the Fed decision.
At 7:00 am, the Mortgage Refinance Index came in strong at 1327.8, up from 1214.7
momentum picked up quickly.
By 8:00 am, our long position was showing about 200 dollars in unrealized gains.
At 10:00 am, the Pending Home Sales Index came in flat at zero percent, and the market dipped.
Our robot closed the long for a 170 dollars profit and switched short.
But by 11:30 am, Nasdaq climbed again ahead of the Fed decision, so we flipped back long,
ending the morning with a realized gain of 175 dollars.
Afternoon Session
At 2:00 pm, the Fed cut rates by zero point two five %, and Nasdaq instantly turned volatile moving sharply both ways.
Our long flipped short, then back long, but high volatility stopped us out.
By 2:30 pm, during Powell’s press conference, spreads widened dramatically, and our swing trades ended in a loss.
By 2:45 pm, all profits were wiped out. Realized losses hit 475 dollars, and before the close,
total losses reached 717 dollars.
After Hours
After 4:00 pm, the big techs dropped their earnings. Microsoft and Meta came in weak,
while Google surprised to the upside. Nasdaq spiked up and down in seconds. Our robot made a quick short, then a long, and one more short to recover most of the drawdown.
By the end of the after-hours session, total realized loss had narrowed to 152 dollars
a wild FOMC trading day overall.
Lesson learned: trading during FOMC hours is risky volatility and wide spreads can erase gains fast.
Summary
Today featured two highly volatile periods the FOMC rate cut and the tech earnings releases.
After a full day of algorithmic trades, we ended with a net loss of 157 dollars. Most of it came during the FOMC window, where spreads were unusually wide and momentum flipped rapidly.
From a 175 dollars profit, to a 717 dollars drawdown, and finally to a 157 dollars net loss.
That’s how wild today was.
Yu, Edward