A nice day for futures all around. The markets opened fairly flat, headed lower, then rallied back to highs after lunch on 1.9 billion NASDAQ shares. See ES section below, plus the OR and IR stuff.

Net ticks: +5.5 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 short at A and worked:

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

ES:

Mark’s call triggered short at A at 2046.00, hit first target for 6 ticks, and stopped second half 5 ticks in the money: