Oct 17, 2025 Profit 998
Today is Friday, October 17, 2025, and welcome back to our daily Nasdaq 100 futures recap.
The market was relatively quiet overall, but beneath the surface, we saw plenty of back-and-forth driven by tech headlines, regional-bank worries, and some new data from the Philadelphia Fed.
Let’s take a closer look at how our swing robot traded through the day
and how it captured nearly 1000 dollars profit trading one single e-Micro Nasdaq 100 futures.
Overnight Session 6 pm to 3 am Eastern Standard Time
At 6 pm, October 16, we began the session with a short position.
About an hour later, around 7 pm the Nasdaq started to climb
our robot closed the short and switched to a long position.
By 8 pm, the Nasdaq 100 was trending higher, supported by strength in the Magnificent Seven stocks, especially Microsoft and Nvidia, which extended gains from the previous session on renewed AI-chip optimism.
However, at 8:45 pm, as the Asian markets opened, futures pulled back. Weakness in Hong Kong tech shares and renewed concerns about US–China tariffs triggered selling pressure. Our robot exited the long position and immediately went short.
Then around midnight, sentiment reversed again — partly after reports of a softer stance in US–China trade talks. The Nasdaq turned higher, and our robot flipped back to a long position.
At 3 am, the London market opened, and risk appetite improved as European traders bought into the dip. The Nasdaq kept climbing, giving our position 396 dollars in unrealized profit,
and by 6:30 am, realized profit reached 455 dollars.
Pre-Market 7 am to 8:30 am Eastern Standard Time
By 7 am, the uptrend continued, fueled by optimism around big-tech earnings next week and positive chatter on AI-related cloud spending.
Our unrealized profit climbed to 466 dollars.
At 8:30 am, with the US futures market officially opened, we locked in the long position for 852 dollars profit and immediately entered a short position.
Around that same time, the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing and Employment Indexes were released, showing mixed results — manufacturing contracted slightly, but employment improved.
The data caused volatility, and our robot switched rapidly from short to long, then back to short again within minutes.
That 10-minute window produced 145 dollars in unrealized gains, while the e-Micro S n P 500 mirrored the same choppy movement.
Opening Hours
Between 9 and 9:30 am, several rapid reversals occurred — our robot executed multiple small swing trades around the open as momentum shifted.
When the US stock market officially opened at 9:30, Nasdaq initially popped higher on tech strength — Tesla rallied after news of stronger-than-expected deliveries, and Meta Platforms extended its October rebound.
However, just five minutes later, at 9:35 am, the index reversed sharply lower as traders took profits ahead of the weekend.
Between 9:40 and 10 am, volatility spiked, and our robot executed six small swing trades, most of which were near breakeven or small losses.
Mid-Morning 10 am to 11:30 am
At 10 am, a new short position was opened with an unrealized gain of 100 dollars.
Over the next half hour, futures fluctuated as regional-bank headlines hit the wires — Zions Bancorp disclosed fresh loan losses and Western Alliance Bancorp mentioned a potential fraud review, briefly weighing on sentiment.
By 10:40 am, the Nasdaq began edging higher again as those fears faded and buyers stepped back in, especially in Nvidia, Amazon, and Alphabet.
Our robot flipped long, booking 247 dollars unrealized profit — then later increased to 435 dollars as the uptrend extended.
At 11:20 am, volatility returned, and two small losing trades followed, but total realized profit for the morning climbed to around 450 dollars.
Midday Consolidation 11:30 am to 1 pm
The late morning and early afternoon were dominated by sideways movement.
Our swing robot generated about 10 small trades, some winners and some losers, as the Nasdaq oscillated between 24,800 and 24,950.
This type of choppy behavior is typical when traders await new catalysts — and as it turned out, most large funds were already trimming risk ahead of the weekend.
By 1 pm, total realized profit had reached roughly 920 dollars.
Afternoon Session 1 pm to 4 pm
From 1 pm to 1:30 pm, the Nasdaq gradually moved higher supported by a final burst in Apple and Amazon shares. Our long swing showed 250 dollars unrealized profit within half an hour.
At 1:45 pm, the position was closed with 200 dollars realized profit, and a new short was opened at 1:50 pm.
For the rest of the afternoon, futures hovered around the 25,000 level, drifting in a narrow range — a classic Friday-afternoon slowdown, as many institutional desks wind down positions early.
Our robot kept executing small scalp trades through the close.
Wrap-Up
At the end of the session, the Nasdaq 100 finished up 160 points, closing near 24,600.
Despite a quiet Friday, the Magnificent Seven continued to dominate market direction — with N vidia, Amazon, and Tesla leading gains, while Alphabet and Meta ended mixed.
Meanwhile, regional-bank jitters, though contained, kept some investors cautious.
Our swing robot closed the day with a net realized profit of 998 dollars, trading just one e-Micro Nasdaq 100 futures.
Yu, Edward