Little Bird TradingSPY Support and Resistance Levels
Daily day-trade levels for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, published the evening before each US session. The prior session’s levels are free, along with what price actually did around them.
Most recent SPY session, October 9, 2026
SPY opened at 774.87, stayed under the 777.62 pivot and dropped to tag 773.75, with a low of 770.43, then ended up closing at 773.89. SPY finished down 0.13% intraday and down 0.42% overall.
The full plan for this sessionWhat SPY is
SPY is an ETF holding the S&P 500 constituents. It trades in a stock account, in any share quantity, during regular US market hours.
SPY specifications
- Instrument
- ETF (stock account)
- Tracks
- S&P 500
- Position sizing
- Any number of shares
- Regular session
- 9:30am to 4:00pm ET
- Intraday margin
- Continuous 25% equity test (the PDT rule was retired June 2026)
How to use the SPY levels
Each plan lists a pivot, the level nearest the last price, with resistance levels above and support levels below. Draw them on your chart before the US open. The pivot is the first price to watch: holding above the pivot keeps the resistance levels in play, and losing the pivot points at the support levels.
The levels come from the regular session, 9:30am to 4:00pm ET, so they describe the hours when most SPY volume trades. The recap above shows how price behaved around the last session’s levels, told from that session’s pivot.
The glossary defines every term in a plan, and the sample plan walks through one real session from the levels to the close. Every SPY plan is on the SPY plans page. See also ES to SPY conversion.
SPY and ES both track the S&P 500, so ES is the futures contract on the same index. Trading both is the same exposure twice. See which one to day trade.
Recent SPY sessions
How price behaved around the levels published for each session.
SPY opened at 775.77, broke above the 778.93 pivot and pushed to a high of 779.11, then ended up closing at 777.18. SPY finished up 0.18% intraday and down 0.25% overall.
SPY opened at 769.68, held above the 768.96 pivot and ran through every resistance level up to 772.08, and kept going to a high of 776.61, then ended up closing at 774.88. SPY finished up 0.68% intraday and up 0.68% overall.
SPY opened at 770.58, held above the 760.57 to 764.74 zone, with a final close of 769.65. SPY finished down 0.12% intraday and up 0.74% overall.
SPY opened at 764.35, chopped inside the 759.97 to 766.88 zone, with a final close of 764.03. SPY finished down 0.04% intraday and up 0.21% overall.
SPY opened at 766.41, chopped inside the 762.13 to 767.10 zone, with a final close of 762.44. SPY finished down 0.52% intraday and down 0.23% overall.
SPY opened at 768.38, never reached the 771.08 to 773.32 zone, with a final close of 765.55. SPY finished down 0.37% intraday and down 0.75% overall.
SPY opened at 764.07, chopped inside the 762.62 to 772.31 zone, with a final close of 767.26. SPY finished up 0.42% intraday and down 0.06% overall.
SPY opened at 774.03, chopped inside the 762.79 to 775.41 zone, with a final close of 773.37. SPY finished down 0.09% intraday and down 0.02% overall.
SPY opened at 761.31, chopped inside the 759.07 to 765.04 zone, with a final close of 761.64. SPY finished up 0.04% intraday and down 0.13% overall.
SPY opened at 763.15, held above the 752.36 to 757.81 zone, with a final close of 762.63. SPY finished down 0.07% intraday and up 1.13% overall.
SPY opened at 758.99, tagged the 759.66 to 767.65 zone and high of 763.52, and finally closed at 760.82. SPY finished up 0.24% intraday and down 0.44% overall.
SPY opened at 764.69, held above the 755.24 to 762.67 zone, with a final close of 764.20. SPY finished down 0.06% intraday and up 0.84% overall.
SPY opened at 758.02, tagged the 758.40 to 765.22 zone and high of 760.11, and finally closed at 757.83. SPY finished down 0.03% intraday and down 0.59% overall.
SPY opened at 764.08, started inside the 762.54 to 769.57 zone then lost it, and finally closed at 762.34. SPY finished down 0.23% intraday and down 0.47% overall.
Common questions
- What are the SPY trading hours?
- The regular session runs 9:30am to 4:00pm ET. ES and NQ futures also trade close to 23 hours a day, and the levels here come from the regular session, when most of the volume trades.
- When are SPY levels published?
- After the US close, usually by about 6:00pm ET, for the next session, so the levels are on your chart before the open.
- Are these SPY levels free?
- The prior session's levels are free, together with a breakdown of how price behaved around them. The upcoming session's levels are Pro.
- How are the SPY levels calculated?
- From price structure on the regular session, so the levels describe the hours most traders actually trade. Prices where the market repeatedly turned are grouped into levels.
Educational information only, not financial advice. Objective market structure and levels only. You make and own your trades.