The markets gapped down, came back up to fill, then went dead for hours before running in the last 15 minutes on a weak 1.8 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +26 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 long at A and worked:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES:

My call triggered long at A at 2973.75, hit first target for 6 ticks, raised the stop twice and stopped 9 ticks in the money on the second half: