REPORT / OPENING RANGE BREAK

Which side of the first 15 goes first?

NQ / New York / 5 yr
52%broke the opening range high first, over 1,396 sessions
high first52%n 727
low first48%n 668
never broke0%n 1
breaks either side (secondary)100%n 1,396
opening range break report / NQ regular hours / 1,396 sessions

Built on a continuous index proxy, validated against CME data.

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The latest 60 sessions on file, not the full sample the headline counts
SessionOutcomeDirectionSize, ptsAgainst, ptsExtension, ptsMinutes
2026-09-01upup97.339.53177.92
2026-08-25upup94.19113.7142.10
2026-08-18downdown141.660113.2910
2026-08-11downdown160.510142.631
2026-08-04upup241.640498.390
2026-07-28downdown260.4692.04121.220
2026-07-21downdown115.52112.4265.820
2026-07-14downdown127.283.03115.8520
2026-07-07downdown193.1802806
2026-06-30upup233.690340.056
2026-06-23upup199.7433.88239.242
2026-06-16upup107.24461.7330.181

Built from a Nasdaq 100 / S&P 500 / Dow 30 index tape, not from exchange futures ticks. Bar to bar return correlation against real MNQ is 0.988 over a 5,238 bar overlap, and 93 to 94 percent of swing pivots land on the same bar. The one minute pull is cross checked against a lossless local tick set over 2026-06-10 to 2026-08-25 and must correlate above 0.98 to ship. Levels are relative, so the rates hold; absolute prices carry a basis of roughly 160 points that drifts.

Sample runs 2021-01-04 to 2026-09-04, 1,396 sessions. Skipped: 45 half days, 39 data holes, 0 sessions the report did not apply to.