A completely dull morning with a volume warning, and then the market finally dropped after lunch on the release of the Fed meeting minutes. That gave volume a little boost and it still closed poor at 1.6 billion NASDAQ shares.
Net ticks: -7 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 short at A at 1786.50 and stopped for 7 ticks. Did not retake, although it worked in the afternoon: