Trade report, 8 October 2026: the pullback day
Seven long positions on SP500, NDX and EURUSD: two index baskets closed up during the session, the one held overnight paid for the night. Every entry, exit and cost, the loser first.
Platform time is UTC+3. Every figure below comes from the trading account's closed-position history. Returns for XFX investors are produced by Darwinex's risk engine and differ from these numbers — see the last section.
The loss, first
The NDX leg of the overnight basket: long at 31,037.6 at 19:27, closed at 30,908.4 at 07:30 the next morning — −129.2 points — 3.4 × the day's average winning trade. Its SP500 twin, opened six seconds earlier, closed +3.5 points. Between those two timestamps the Nasdaq cash session finished −1.24 % with technology the weakest sector, and the night cost financing on both legs; the dividend adjustments credited at 00:27 covered about a third of it.
What the record shows: this strategy wins often and small, and takes a larger loss now and then. Darwinex's statistics for XFX — 66 % winning trades over 8,191 trades — describe the first half of that sentence; a day like this makes the second half visible. We publish the loser first, every time.
What happened, in order
| Time | Trade | Entry › Exit |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:06 | ▲ SP500 · basket 1 held 6h 18m |
7,786.3 › 7,794.1 |
+7.8 pts |
| 11:06 | ▲ NDX · basket 1 held 6h 17m |
31,043.8 › 31,102.7 |
+58.9 pts |
| 19:27 | ▲ SP500 · basket 2 ☾ held 12h 02m |
7,789.9 › 7,793.4 |
+3.5 pts |
| 19:27 | ▲ NDX · basket 2 ☾ held 12h 03m |
31,037.6 › 30,908.4 |
−129.2 pts |
| 20:10 | ▲ EURUSD ☾ held 11h 19m |
1.12037 › 1.12250 |
+21.3 pips |
| 20:24 | ▲ NDX · basket 3 held 52m |
30,670.4 › 30,755.9 |
+85.5 pts |
| 20:24 | ▲ SP500 · basket 3 held 52m |
7,752.2 › 7,763.7 |
+11.5 pts |
▲ long · ▼ short · ☾ held overnight
- Basket 1 was opened at 11:06, before the US open, and closed at 17:24, under an hour into the cash session.
- Basket 2 was opened at 19:27 and carried through the close and the night.
- Basket 3 was opened at 20:24 — 37.7 S&P points and 367.2 NDX points below basket 2's entries — and closed 52 minutes later, at 21:17, as prices bounced.
- At 07:30 the next morning the overnight basket and the EURUSD position were closed within 36 seconds of each other.
Each basket paired SP500 and NDX in the same 1 : 0.3 proportion.
Market context
On 8 October the S&P 500 closed at 7,765.36 (−0.46 %), two sessions after its record close on 6 October (7,818.95). The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.24 % to 27,193.34, with technology the weakest sector of the S&P 500 (about −1.8 %) after a report that OpenAI's annualised revenue was lower than previously indicated. Brent crude settled at $104.28 (+4.1 %) on concerns about Gulf shipping and the Iran conflict, and the 10-year Treasury yield ended near 5.23 % after a steadying bond auction. Sources at the end.
Costs of the day
Commission was charged on all seven positions. Overnight financing applied to the two index legs held through the night; the same two legs received the dividend adjustments that long index positions are credited with (SP500: 8.88 USD per lot; NDX: 0.67 USD per lot). Taken together, costs consumed 11.7 % of the day's gross trading result. Costs are part of the record, so they are part of every report.
What XFX investors saw
DARWIN XFX replicates this account's positions through Darwinex's risk engine, which targets a monthly value-at-risk of 6.5 % (95 %). Position sizes inside the DARWIN are scaled by that engine, so an investor's result for 8–9 October is the change in the DARWIN's quote, published by Darwinex, not the figures above. The quote and its full history are on the XFX page at Darwinex. This is also why we report in points rather than currency: points describe the trading; the DARWIN's quote describes the investment.
Sources
- Alain Guillot – Stock market recap, 8 October 2026 (S&P 500 7,765.36, Nasdaq 27,193.34, Brent $104.28, 10-year ≈ 5.23 %): https://alainguillot.com/stock-market-recap-october-8-2026
- Vistap Global – Stock market today, 8 October 2026: https://vistapglobal.com/stock-market-today-october-8-2026-nasdaq-falls-1-25-as-oil-and-rate-worries-weigh-on-wall-street-amzn-docs-eprx-eras-gs-hpp-modd-nvda-pltr-ser-soc-spcx-t-ysg
- Newcastle Herald – S&P 500, Nasdaq reach record closing highs, 6 October 2026 (S&P 500 7,818.95): https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/9363954/sp-500-nasdaq-reach-record-closing-highs/
- Darwinex – DARWIN XFX (VaR target 6.5 %, 8,191 trades, 66 % winning): https://www.darwinex.com/invest/XFX
- Trading account history (MetaTrader 5): closed positions opened on 8 October 2026, platform time UTC+3