The markets opened fairly flat, were a little mixed early (NASDAQ side was stronger), dipped right ahead of lunch, and then spent the afternoon dead flat on 1.7 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +7.5 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, missed first target under the rules by a tick, stopped over ORL based on my live note in the feed, triggered long at B, closed a point in the money as the markets seemed dead:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: