SpaceX beat on revenue and profit after Tuesday’s close and traded more than 6% higher. On the scan, two of 20 charts carry a green light, which means full size, and both point down. Atlanticus is the first. Synchrony is the second: it beat too, was sold off its report spike, and closed under the price large money paid for it, $73.70. Royal Caribbean and Amphenol are the half-size longs.
| Sell | Atlanticus short, full size. Green light and the best record on the scan. No report on the calendar until November. |
| Sell | Synchrony short, full size, on the first four-hour close after the open under its line. Tuesday’s long never triggered. |
| Buy | Royal Caribbean long, half size. Wound to 99%. It reports next Tuesday, so it is out by Monday’s close. |
| Wait | Amphenol. A half-size long, but the overnight print sits 7 cents past its window. Open over it and it is a pass. |
| Skip | Acuity, Seacoast, CSW and all four indices. Fifteen of 20 charts carry a red light, including two coiled-spring setups and Acuity’s 13, the highest confirmation on the scan. |
SpaceX reported third-quarter revenue of $14.58 billion after Tuesday’s close, up 161% and almost $2 billion over forecasts, and a $4.40 billion profit against a $1.05 billion loss a year ago. Starlink revenue rose 69% to $5.2 billion. The AI unit brought in $7.6 billion, now the biggest line on the page. The stock closed at $147.79 and traded above $157 after hours.
Tuesday’s two readings traded places overnight. Stocks fell back to Accumulation while the index charts climbed to Late Cycle. Bonds and stocks move together at 0.31, under the 0.35 stress line, so there is no blanket size cut: each chart’s light sets its own size.
| Book | Reading | What it means this morning |
|---|---|---|
| Stock charts Tuesday’s close | Accumulation +1 of 10.5 | Risk switched off at the close, leaving only money flowing. Longs get +2. Monday this clock read Late Cycle, +2. The trades below run on this clock. |
| Index charts live, 09:39 CEST | Late Cycle +4 of 10.5 | Risk back on overnight, stocks still off. Longs docked −1, bonds and stocks apart at −0.23. Tuesday morning this clock read Accumulation, +1. |
| Index | The line | What it means this morning |
|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 CFD 7,739.95 | Inside | 0.70% over its 7,686 cost line, from 0.23%. Confirmation fell to 0 on one frame, from 7 on two. Red, improving, −.12R over 26. |
| Nasdaq 100 CFD 29,719.6 | On it | 0.04% under its 29,732 line, from 0.90% under. Red, fading, +.01R over 115, 0.6 points from amber. |
| Dow CFD 52,510 | Back over | 0.46% over its 52,270 line, from 0.27% under. Swing still bear. Red, fading, −.09R over 47. |
| Russell 2000 CFD 2,771.2 | Far under | 3.62% under its 2,875 line, from 5.0%. The oversold snapback is still active. Red, holding, −.02R over 37. |
The index panel holds at Confirming, +3 of 8, with 52.1% of stocks above their 50-day average, up from 43.9%, and 53.3% above their 200-day, up from 50.7%. Its McClellan reads +40.5. Our own engine, run after Tuesday’s close at 01:16 CEST, counted the other way. 29 advancers. A net of −16, advance/decline 0.64, and a McClellan of −70.4, down from −58.6. 39.2% of its names sit above their 50-day, up from 32.4%; 62.2% above their 200-day.
| Name | Reports | What it does to the trade |
|---|---|---|
| SYF | Reported Tuesday | Beat, spiked, sold. The print is behind it, so the four-hour chart decides from here. |
| BANR | Tonight, after the close | Not recaptured. Monday’s plan for Thursday stands. |
| RCL | Tue Oct 27, before the open | Four sessions of room. Flat by Monday’s close. |
| APH | Wed Oct 28, before the open | Five sessions of room. Flat by Tuesday’s close. |
| ATLC | No date set | The chart marks early November. Clear for now. |
| # | Ticker | Dir | Entry | Why it is on this list | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ATLC | Short | 🔒 Members | Has drifted lower inside a range since mid-August and now sits near the bottom of its window, with the best record on the scan behind the shortConf 10 / 3 frames · coiled down 77% · +.20R over 37 signals, range +.03 to +.38 · green, improving, 19.5-point cushion | Full |
| 2 | SYF | Short | 🔒 Members | Beat on Tuesday, spiked, and was sold back under the price large money paid for it. The terminal flipped from bullish to bearishCoiled-spring setup · Conf 11 / 2 frames · coiled 86% · converged 76% · +.13R over 40 signals, range +.02 to +.24 · green, holding, 19.4-point cushion | Full |
| 3 | RCL | Long | 🔒 Members | Climbed more than 25% off its September oversold low, back over its cost line, and is now wound almost as tight as it getsConf 10 / 2 frames · coiled 99% · +.06R over 72 signals, range −.08 to +.21 · amber, holding, 7.1-point cushion | Half |
| 4 | APH | Long | 🔒 Members | Pulled back from its October high onto its cost line. Only a trade if it opens inside its windowConf 7 / 2 frames · expanded 12% · +.12R over 58 signals, range .00 to +.24 · amber, fading, 14.1-point cushion | Half, if it opens inside |
Synchrony closed Tuesday at $73.41, 29 cents under its line, after the report spike was sold. A first four-hour close after the open under $73.70 puts the short on. A close back over it ends the short, and you wait.
You can check this against the tape by 19:30 CEST, which is why it sits on the free side of the gate. The exit and the targets do not.
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Cost line (the anchor) · the volume-weighted price large money actually paid over the current swing. Everything in this brief is measured as distance from it. Buy near it and you are paying what they paid. Buy far above it and you are paying their profit. Entry window · how far from the cost line a new entry can still be sensibly priced. Inside it, the entry is fairly priced. Past it, the move has already run and you wait for a pullback. Compression · how tightly the range has wound, from 0 to 100%. High means the next move should be a big one. It says nothing about direction, and it never overrides a shut window. Confirmation · how many independent readings agree, and across how many timeframes. Higher on both counts is better. Record · the average result per signal in units of risk, where being stopped out is exactly −1.00. Always published with the number of finished signals behind it, and measured over the same history the settings were chosen on. Below 20 finished signals no rate is published. A short record is not a verdict on the chart, only on what can be measured yet. Trend light · green means full size, amber means half, red means no new entry however good the chart looks. A chart with no light yet, because its record is still being built, is sized at half. The cushion is how close the light is to changing.
Readings captured Wednesday 21 October 2026 from the IVT v14.4 terminal on four-hour bars: stocks between 07:29 and 07:36 CEST, indices at 09:39 CEST. Stock readings reflect Tuesday’s close. Index levels are live CFD feeds and differ from the cash index and your futures contract. US exchanges open at 15:30 CEST. Cost lines and window edges are derived from the terminal’s published percentage distances. Support and resistance levels are read off the chart and are approximate.
Records are in-sample and forecast nothing. No rate is published on fewer than twenty finished signals, and the sample size is printed beside every one. Banner reports tonight after the close, Royal Caribbean before the open on 27 October and Amphenol before the open on 28 October. Do not hold a four-hour trade through a report.
Charts are unmodified terminal captures provided for reference, not as entry instructions. Educational content only. Not financial advice. Past results do not predict future ones.