The markets gapped up and stayed very flat most of the day until drifting higher very late on 3.6 billion NASDAQ shares.

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 long at and worked enough for a partial:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered short at A and long at B but both were too far out of range to take:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES:

My call triggered short at A at 3549.75, hit first target for 8 ticks, second half stopped over the entry: