Another painfully dull session as the markets once again closed flat. Volume was only 1.45 billion NASDAQ shares. The Opening Range plays worked great, and we stopped out of one other play.

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 and NQ Opening and Institutional Range Plays:

ES Opening Range Play triggered short at A and stopped, triggered long at B and worked:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked great:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES:

Triggered long at A at 2091.00 heading into the Value Area and stopped on the news spike 30 minutes into the market before making the move all the way across: