The markets gapped up and were sadly pretty boring, never filled the gap, cupped all day, and then broke out late and went nowhere on 2.2 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 long at A and short at B, both would have worked, but the risk was too high to take under the rules:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and short at B, but the risk was too high to take under the rule:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES:

A nice setup over R1: