Pretty much as expected for expiration, although volume ended up being much lighter than I would have thought. We closed at 1.6 billion NASDAQ shares, which is really unusual to see for expiration. The market was flat most of the session.

Net ticks: -7 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:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES:

Triggered short at 2019.00 at A and stopped. I did not put it back in, but it worked the second time: