The markets gapped up and literally did nothing for the first hour, then eventually drifted down to fill the gaps, bounced back to the VWAP over lunch, and rolled a little in the afternoon on 1.5 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 short at A and I closed it even at B. Would have worked if you wanted to wait an hour and a half. LOL:

NQ Opening Range Play, we don’t take the long at A because we are already short ES and it isn’t into the gap. I didn’t take the short at B either because things were so dead:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: