Markets gapped up and went lower early, then recovered, but the action remains very muted on 6.2 billion NASDAQ shares.

Net ticks: -18 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 A and worked enough for a partial, triggered short at B and stopped over the midpoint:

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 long at A at 3207.75 and missed the partial by a tick, stopped: