The markets gapped up, sold off to fill the gaps early, flattened out for hours including lunch, and then sold off late in the day on 4.3 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +0 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 just too far out of range otherwise it would have been a huge trigger:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered just too far out of range to take:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: