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Next Open
While CME is closed, a predicted reopening price for ES, NQ and GC, with direction, a likely range and where it lands against the levels.
Next Open predicts where ES, NQ and GC will reopen while CME futures are closed: over the weekend, at the daily break and on holidays. While CME is trading, it shows when the next prediction starts instead.
For each market it shows:
| Element | What it is |
|---|---|
| Predicted open | The expected reopening price |
| Badge | Up or Down with the chance of that direction, Flat for a small gap, or No signal |
| Gap | The predicted open against the last futures close |
| Range | Where the open is likely to land; about 2 in 3 opens fall inside it |
| Opens ... | Where the predicted open sits against that market's call wall, put wall or gamma flip |
In the live widget a line under the predictions gives the backtest: how often the direction was right over past weekends or sessions.
Marked (Beta) in the widget picker: it is newer, and some of the data behind it can lag the live market by several minutes.
Practical application#
Reading it. It is Saturday, and the card counts down to the Sunday 6:00 PM ET reopen (1 day 6 hours away). NQ closed Friday at 27,075; the predicted open is 27,190, a +0.42% gap, with a 71% chance the open is higher. The likely range runs from 27,062 to 27,318, and the open lands above the gamma flip, short of the 27,250 call wall. ES points the same way (Up 66%); GC is Flat.
What it means. The weekend leans toward a modest gap up for the equity indexes. The range still includes Friday's close, so a flat or slightly lower open would not be a surprise.
How to use it.
- Plan the open before it happens: a predicted open near a wall tells you which level price will meet first.
- Treat the percentage as odds, not a promise. A 71% call is wrong about three times in ten; size for that.
- A wide range means an uncertain weekend: wait for the first minutes of trading before committing.
- Flat or No signal: no edge in the gap; trade the levels instead.
The options-implied range around price for every horizon, with today's 1D band and how much of it is used.
The session's price against the call wall, put wall, gamma flip and vol trigger, with the nearest level called out.
The next three macro releases for your market: the odds of a cooler, in-line or hotter print, the options-implied move, and how the market reacted before.