# The Day SPX Touched the Call Wall (Oct 9, 2026)

Source: https://squawkflow.com/videos/wall-touched-oct9
Retrieved: 2026-10-17T16:08:08.338Z
Uploaded: 2026-10-16
Duration: 2:03
Topic: Options Greeks
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A dated replay of Oct 9, 2026: the SPX call wall, the session record's touched verdict, and the next three mornings' walls. AI voice.

AI voice: the narration is a synthetic voice reading a script SquawkFlow wrote. Educational only, not investment advice. Nothing here is a forecast or a recommendation to trade.

## Chapters

- 0:00 A dated record (https://squawkflow.com/videos/wall-touched-oct9?t=0)
- 0:14 The morning (https://squawkflow.com/videos/wall-touched-oct9?t=14)
- 0:38 The test (https://squawkflow.com/videos/wall-touched-oct9?t=38)
- 1:14 The next three mornings (https://squawkflow.com/videos/wall-touched-oct9?t=74)
- 1:43 Wrap (https://squawkflow.com/videos/wall-touched-oct9?t=103)

## Related

- Explainer: https://squawkflow.com/learn/call-wall-put-wall-explained

## Transcript

# The Day SPX Touched the Call Wall (Oct 9, 2026)

Narration: AI voice.

### A dated record

Friday, October ninth, 2026. The SPX call wall got touched. Here's the dated record, straight off the session page. No story, no spin, just what the page says.

### The morning

That morning the wall relocated a hundred points lower, to 7,800 from 7,900. Same method, new open interest. First snapshot at ten: spot 7,781.55, wall 18.5 points overhead. Eighteen and a half points. That's close.

### The test

Ten thirty: spot 7,788.60, within 11.4 points of the wall. Still short. The record doesn't say when the touch came. It says the session's range reached the wall. The page's verdict for the day: call wall touched, closest approach 0.00. Session high 7,820.57. Close, 7,811.54. Above the wall. A touch counts if the vendor's high and low reached it, anywhere in the session.

### The next three mornings

Now watch the next three mornings. Monday the twelfth, the wall relocated a hundred higher, to 7,900. Tuesday, 8,000. Wednesday, back to 7,900. Nobody moved a line. The open interest settled, the math ran, the strike changed. The wall is a settlement figure, recomputed every morning. It is not a line in the sand.

### Wrap

One session, one dated outcome. Not a tally, not a forecast. The session record keeps a page like this for each recorded session. How the walls are built is on the learn page linked below. Educational only.

Full write-up with sources: [/learn/call-wall-put-wall-explained](/learn/call-wall-put-wall-explained)

Educational content, not investment advice.

Levels shown are as captured on 2026-10-16 01:49 ET; they are not current.
