NQ Session Recap — Wednesday, July 8, 2026

NQ gapped down 192.75 points at the open on Wednesday, July 8, 2026 and settled at 29,457.00, +61.50 points (+0.21%) versus the prior regular-session close. The regular session traded a 466.00-point range between 29,034.00 and 29,500.00, closing near the session high.

Overnight trade ahead of the open ranged from 28,909.75 to 29,558.75. The day session held inside the overnight range, which is worth logging if you track overnight-range behavior as part of your prep.

Price built a 198.00-point initial balance (09:30–10:30 ET, 29,201.00–29,399.00) and traded through both sides of it — a double-break session that punished one-directional assumptions.

Session volume totaled roughly 545,475 contracts across the trading day, with about 355,947 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.