{"id":65421,"date":"2025-10-16T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/?p=65421"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:43:04","slug":"market-trends-october-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2025\/10\/16\/market-trends-october-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnings and Jerome Powell Suppress Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downloads are available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/MT-Public-Materials-October-2025.zip\">here<\/a>. TradeStation\u2019s ideas on TradingView are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/broker\/TradeStation\/ideas\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sizing Up the Market<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>S&amp;P 500 holds:\n<ul>\n<li>21-day exponential moving average (EMA)<\/li>\n<li>September 26 weekly close of 6,644<\/li>\n<li>Follows holding September 17 low of 6,551<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday each closed above 50 percent retracement of October 10 selloff (non-confirmation of downside)<\/li>\n<li>Overbought condition eliminated:\n<ul>\n<li>Slow stochastic rebounds from lowest since April 10<\/li>\n<li>Wilder&#8217;s Relative Strength Index (RSI) lowest since April 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_65425\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65425\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015-1536x734.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.tradestation.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SPX_20251015-1080x516.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>S&amp;P 500, daily chart, with select patterns and indicators.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Using the Platform<\/h2>\n<p>How Scanner can discover stocks pushing highs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Symbol Universe \u2192 All Stocks<\/li>\n<li>Scan Criteria:\n<ul>\n<li>&lt;Select Criteria&gt; \u2192 Price \u2192 % of 52 Wk High\/Low &gt; 95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Earnings tonight: CSX IBKR<\/li>\n<li>Fri 10\/17: AXP SLB ALLY STT<\/li>\n<li>Tue 10\/21:\n<ul>\n<li>Premarket: GM GE PM HAL KO VZ RTX<\/li>\n<li>Postmarket: NFLX TXN EQT COF<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wed 10\/22:\n<ul>\n<li>Premarket: T TECK<\/li>\n<li>Postmarket: <strong>*<\/strong><em><strong>TSLA*<\/strong><\/em> LRCX IBM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloads are available\u00a0here. TradeStation\u2019s ideas on TradingView are\u00a0available here. Sizing Up the Market S&amp;P 500 holds: 21-day exponential moving average (EMA) September 26 weekly close of 6,644 Follows holding September 17 low of 6,551 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday each closed above 50 percent retracement of October 10 selloff (non-confirmation of downside) Overbought condition eliminated: Slow stochastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":63321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1276,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-trends","category-stocks","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Earnings and Jerome Powell Suppress Volatility | Market Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2025\/10\/16\/market-trends-october-16\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Earnings and Jerome Powell Suppress Volatility | Market Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Downloads are available\u00a0here. 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