The markets gapped up, held for 30 minutes, then headed up until lunch and that was about it for the day on 2.2 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +8 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 enough for a partial, triggered long at B and worked:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A but we don’t take it by rule because we were short ES and this was not into the gap:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: