The markets gapped up, pulled back a bit, went higher over lunch, then spiked on the Fed announcement and ended up closing about where that spike stopped on 2.5 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 stopped, triggered long at B and stopped:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked, triggered short at B and worked enough for a partial:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES:

Our call triggered short at 2650.25, hit first target for 6 ticks, stopped second half over the entry: