Praedor closed the week with a short that caught a 285.75-point drop. That makes four trades this week, and all four finished green. Praedor (live, MNQ): • Short 28,197.75 at 9:45:00, trailing stop 27,912.00 at 12:06:14 PM (+285.75 points | +$571.50 micro | +$5,715.00 standard) Micro is the MNQ contract at $2 a point. Standard is the NQ contract at $20 a point. This week (Praedor, live): • Monday: +303.50 points | +$607.00 micro | +$6,070.00 standard • Tuesday: no trade • Wednesday: +17.50 points | +$35.00 micro | +$350.00 standard • Thursday: +322.50 points | +$645.00 micro | +$6,450.00 standard • Friday: +285.75 points | +$571.50 micro | +$5,715.00 standard Week: +929.25 points | +$1,858.50 micro | +$18,585.00 standard The market: October producer prices rose 0.3 percent for the month, a little cooler than the 0.4 percent forecast. Compared with a year ago, though, they were up 6.5 percent, the biggest yearly rise since late 2022. Stocks opened higher, helped by the cooler monthly number and an early bounce in Nvidia. The gains did not last. Chip stocks turned lower and led the market down. AMD fell about 10 percent, and Broadcom and Coherent were among the weakest names in the S&P 500. Nvidia gave up its early bounce and fell about 4 percent as investors kept adjusting to Thursday's change at the top. At one point the Nasdaq 100 was down about 1.7 percent. Rates added pressure. The 10-year Treasury yield sat near 5.1 percent, and Chicago Fed President Goolsbee said the Fed "has definitely got work to do" on inflation. Futures now treat a December rate hike as the base case, with better than a 10 percent chance of a half-point move. Bitcoin fell below $70,000 for the first time since August. Now Praedor. Praedor is a level-reaction engine. It waits for price to push through an obvious level, such as the overnight high or low or the prior day's high or low. It trades based on how price behaves there, and it manages the position with a trailing stop. NQ opened near 28,400, in the middle of Thursday's range. The early rise faded quickly. By 9:45, NQ had pushed below its overnight low near 28,245, and Praedor read the break as real and sold short at 28,197.75. The selling carried on through Thursday's low near 28,044. Around noon, price bounced far enough to reach the trailing stop, which closed the trade at 27,912 with 285.75 points locked in.