This integrated approach gives traders and investors an informed directional bias and key price levels to watch.
Five-Day Nasdaq Futures Overview
Over the last five trading days, Nasdaq futures have shown a clear rhythm: a bearish opening day, a powerful three-day bullish stretch, and a cooling in momentum on the most recent session.
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Aug 05: Mildly bearish, with sellers active at the highs and buyers unable to take control.
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Aug 06–08: A decisive bullish phase — three straight sessions of higher closes, rising VWAP, and strong buyer defense on dips. This was the week’s strongest period of upside momentum.
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Aug 11: Momentum slowed. Sellers defended the 23,800 region aggressively, halting the advance and flattening VWAP gains.
This sequence leaves the broader trend leaning upward, but with clear resistance overhead that must be broken for further gains.
Pre-Market Nasdaq Futures Analysis (Last 5 Hours)
The pre-market session provided a smaller-scale version of the week’s bigger picture: buyer defense at key support levels and seller pushback near resistance.
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Early Session: Buyers opened strong, defending price near 23,640.
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Second Hour: A sharp wave of selling — the most aggressive of the morning — briefly tested lower levels before losing momentum.
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Mid-Morning: Buyers reasserted control, holding above the 23,630–23,643 zone (today’s Value Area Low, Point of Control, and VWAP).
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Late Pre-Market: Price stalled under 23,664 VAH, where sellers absorbed buying attempts and capped further upside.
Key Nasdaq Futures Levels for Today
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Immediate Support Zone: 23,630–23,643 — the buy zone that has repeatedly attracted defense in pre-market trade.
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First Resistance: 23,664 — today’s VAH, the first breakout test.
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Next Upside Targets: 23,686 (yesterday’s VAL), 23,714 (yesterday’s VWAP), 23,735 (yesterday’s POC), 23,763 (yesterday’s VAH).
Nasdaq Price Prediction
Our orderFlow Intel reading for Nasdaq futures is mildly bullish (+3 score). This proprietary scoring system runs from -10 (extremely bearish) through 0 (neutral) to +10 (extremely bullish), blending directional bias with confidence into a single number. The market has shown consistent buyer defense at today’s POC/VWAP cluster, but upside continuation depends on breaking and sustaining above 23,664.
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Bullish Path: A strong break above 23,664 with sustained buying could trigger a push toward 23,735–23,763.
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Bearish Path: A failure to hold 23,630 could shift momentum lower, targeting 23,600–23,585.
Educational Insight – Why Order Flow Matters
At its core, order flow tracks the actual transactions occurring in the market — not just price movement, but the balance between aggressive buyers hitting the ask and aggressive sellers hitting the bid.
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Aggressive Buyers: Willing to pay the ask to ensure execution, often pushing prices upward in the short term.
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Aggressive Sellers: Willing to sell at the bid to get out quickly, often driving prices lower.
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Absorption: When one side absorbs the other’s aggression without significant price movement — e.g., sellers at the highs preventing breakout, or buyers at the lows holding support.
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Discrepancies: Situations where order flow signals diverge from price action, such as strong buying volume without upward price movement (a sign of hidden selling pressure).
For most traders, tracking this level of detail is difficult and time-consuming. We do the complex analysis for you:
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We identify when buying or selling is being absorbed by larger players.
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We detect when momentum is accelerating or fading beneath the surface.
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We integrate this with multi-day and intraday price level mapping to create a clear trading compass.
While this is not financial advice, it is a unique and powerful tool for improving your decision-making in both day and swing trading.
Bottom Line: Nasdaq futures still have an upward structure, but sellers are defending overhead levels. The next decisive move will come from whether 23,664 breaks to the upside or 23,630 gives way to the downside
