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# Nasdaq 100
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Last modified: 2026-10-17

The Nasdaq 100 is an index of the hundred largest non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq, weighted by market value and dominated by technology. It falls harder than the S&P 500 on a hawkish Fed night because [growth companies are priced on cash that arrives a decade away](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-the-fed-moves-markets). QQQ tracks it, and it sits in the [counts column of the US market map](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-stock-market-explained).

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