The markets gapped up a little, filled, played around for two hours, then started dropping after lunch and closed at lows on 5.2 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +0 ticks (we aren’t counting futures in this mess).

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 triggers again were too far out of range to take:

NQ Opening Range Play triggers again were too far out of range to take:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: