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Tech Breaks Its October Floor, Gold Loses $4,000
Three theoretical setups for the first week of November: the Nasdaq-100 fund QQQ after its worst day since June, gold after a 3% slide that took it below $4,000 and its July low, and ether, stuck in a tight range since the Binance withdrawal halt.
QQQ · Invesco QQQ Trust (Nasdaq-100) — Bearish, Short-term (days). QQQ fell 3.47% on Friday, October 30, to $690.49, about twice the 1.77% drop in SPY, as Intel's 28.6% collapse, the worst day for the stock since 1974, joined Thursday's record loss in Alphabet and Amazon's after-hours slide in a broad rejection of big-tech spending plans. The Nasdaq Composite lost 2.86%, its worst day since June, and closed October with its biggest monthly fall since March 2025. The technical damage is specific: for two weeks the fund had held a floor around $704, with closes of $704.47 on October 22 and $704.40 on October 23 and an intraday low of $701.16, and every dip into that zone was bought. Friday opened below it at $697.21 and never got back, with a low of $683.45. A support level that breaks on a gap and closes near the session's lower half often turns into resistance for the next attempts higher. The risks are a reflex rebound after a 4.8% fall from the October 28 close of $725.61 and the October jobs report on November 6. A daily close above $704.47, the top of the broken floor, would invalidate the setup.
GLD · SPDR Gold Shares — Bearish, Short-term (days). GLD fell 3.47% on October 30 to $355.78, its lowest close of the month, as spot gold dropped about 3% to below $3,900 an ounce, breaking under $4,000 and the July low near $3,941. On Binance, PAX Gold fell from $4,014 to a low of $3,890 during the day and closed at $3,901.71. Kitco put the day's range at roughly $3,869 to $4,027, and Fortune's data showed gold down about 7% from a month earlier. The pressure comes from rates: September's core PCE inflation rose to 3.1% on Thursday, two Fed officials had voted for a hike on Wednesday, and CME FedWatch readings cited on Thursday priced roughly an 83% chance of a December increase, which keeps real yields high against an asset that pays no income. The fund had bounced off $364.33, its October 23 low, twice in the past week; Friday's gap opened below that level at $361.45 and closed near the low. The risk is a safe-haven bid if the equity sell-off turns disorderly, or a weak jobs report on November 6 that pulls hike bets back. A daily close above $364.33, the October 23 low that gave way, would invalidate the setup.
ETH · Ethereum — Neutral, Short-term (days). Ether lost 4.5% on Binance on October 29, from $2,359.69 to $2,253.13, as the exchange halted withdrawals after a security incident it put at about $6.3 billion, then spent Friday swinging between $2,174.08 and $2,262.49 before closing almost unchanged at $2,245.54. Daily spot volume on Binance rose to about $1.03 billion on October 30, more than twice the $420 million of October 28, which shows the selling met real buying rather than an empty book. Two forces now pull in opposite directions. The exchange said it had frozen about $3 billion of the affected funds and would cover losses from its SAFU fund, which removes the risk of a forced liquidation of customer balances; at the same time, withdrawals remain on hold, equities just had their worst day since June and higher-for-longer rate expectations weigh on every asset priced on risk appetite. Early Saturday trading stayed between $2,237 and $2,253. The levels define the next move rather than a view: a daily close below $2,174.08, Friday's low, would open a new leg down, while a close above $2,391.55, the October 28 high and the last level before the incident, would mean the market has moved past it.