After being all over the board overnight, especially a spike up on the Fed announcement of their unlimited purchasing, the markets opened closer to flat, tried both ways, and closed lower on 4.3 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: +0 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 again triggered too far out of range to take:

NQ Opening Range Play again triggered too far out of range to take:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: