A small winner for a very light session. The markets gapped down small and never quite filled the gaps on the ES. NASDAQ volume was only 1.4 billion shares. We await the last three days of core earnings.

Net ticks: +2.5 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:

Triggered long over the Pivot at 1968.00 at A, hit first target for 6 ticks, stopped second half under the entry: