A really boring session to start the week. The markets opened with a small gap down and struggled to fill the gaps over the first hour. The whole day was very flat and dull in a narrow range, and NASDAQ volume closed at 1.5 billion shares.

Net ticks: -14 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 2035.50 and stopped. Triggered once more and stopped. I did not put it back in a third time, although that would have worked: