The markets gapped up and did very little all day on 1.8 billion NASDAQ shares. Boring start to the new options cycle over summer.

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 and NQ Opening and Institutional Range Plays:

ES Opening Range Play triggered short at A and stopped over the midpoint, triggered long at B and worked:

NQ Opening Range Play triggered long at A and worked, but technically, under the rules, we don’t take this because we were short ES and this wasn’t into the gap:

ES Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

NQ Tradesight Institutional Range Play:

ES: