A couple of winning calls after a super-slow start with no gap. The markets showed some action in the afternoon for the first time in a while but that didn’t lead to much and we closed around the VWAP on 1.5 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +10.5 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 long at A and didn’t work:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and didn’t work:

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

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

ES:

My long call triggered at A at 2105.75 but I ended up closing it for a 3 tick gain after it didn’t get anywhere for 20 minutes, which was fine. The short triggered in the after at B at 2099.50, hit first target for 6 ticks, and closed final half after adjusting the stop three times for 9 ticks: