As you can see the trading today was not of the spectacular variety, as has been the case for the last couple of days. The first entry I highlighted was a very difficult one to see as the CCI line drifted around the -100 for quite a while and I was never completely convinced the move was upward, though the price was significantly above the 89 period SMA.
Just the same, the ES is certainly the grandaddy of the emini contracts. As I have mentioned in other articles, the futures markets are a zero-sum game, which is to say that for every winner there is a corresponding loser. This contrasts to the NYSE where unmatched trades are covered by market makers who make sure there is a trading market in their respective stock regardless of the short or long volume.