The markets gapped up, pulled back a little for 30 minutes, and then turned up to the highs, made new highs over lunch, and pushed even higher to a new closing on 1.6 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +2.5 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 worked:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play triggered long at A and worked:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play triggered long at A and worked:

ES:

Mark’s call triggered long at A at 2109.50, hit first target for 6 ticks, stopped second half under the entry: