A big gap up for options expiration. We had a winner on the ES that didn’t go far, and that was it. A call in the afternoon didn’t trigger. NASDAQ volume closed at 1.9 billion shares, strangely the lightest of the week for expiration.

Net ticks: +2.5 ticks.

As usual, let’s start by taking a look at the ES and NQ with our market directional lines, VWAP, and Comber on the 5-minute chart from today’s session:

ES:

Triggered long at A at 1884.00, hit first target for 6 ticks, stopped second half under the entry: