Another day, another set of winners for the Opening Range plays, and then the NQ set up nicely against the Pivot in the afternoon and worked. See both sections below. The markets ended up with small gains on 1.7 billion NASDAQ shares to wrap up the first half of the year.

Net ticks: +9 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:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered short at A and worked:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: