A loser on the ES and a winner on the NQ for the session as the broad market basically stuck in a 5-point ES range. Volume looked good early though and closed at 1.8 billion NASDAQ shares.
Net ticks: -4 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:
My call set the Pivot and triggered short at A at 1836.00 and stopped for 7 ticks:
NQ:
Just a reminder that we use half points for ticks on the NQ and not the quarter point measurement that the exchanges switched to in recent years. This allows us to use 6 ticks as a key target as we do on the other contracts. It also keeps the value of a tick at $10, closer to the value of a tick on the other contracts.
Mark’s call set the R1 here and triggered long at A at 3621.75, hit first target for 6 ticks, and closed 2 ticks in the money:
