ES Session Recap — Friday, July 3, 2026

ES gapped up 28.50 points at the open on Friday, July 3, 2026 and settled at 7,557.00, +30.75 points (+0.41%) versus the prior regular-session close. The regular session traded a 12.50-point range between 7,549.25 and 7,561.75, closing in the upper part of the range.

Price built a 10.00-point initial balance (09:30–10:30 ET, 7,549.25–7,559.25) and broke above it, extending about 25% of the IB range above the IB high at the furthest point.

This was a shortened session (42 five-minute bars), so range and volume comparisons against full sessions should be discounted. Regular-session volume totaled roughly 39,240 contracts.

One session is a data point, not a pattern. The way to use a day like this is to compare it against the distribution: how often ES breaks its initial balance in this direction, what range expansion typically follows, and how similar sessions resolved. Profitabul's paid report engine computes exactly those statistics over historical sessions.