ES Session Recap — Thursday, September 17, 2026

ES gapped up 91.25 points at the open on Thursday, September 17, 2026 and settled at 7,707.50, +85.25 points (+1.12%) versus the prior regular-session close. The regular session traded a 35.75-point range between 7,680.50 and 7,716.25, closing in the upper part of the range.

Overnight trade ahead of the open ranged from 7,617.50 to 7,722.25. The day session held inside the overnight range, which is worth logging if you track overnight-range behavior as part of your prep.

Price built a 35.75-point initial balance (09:30–10:30 ET, 7,680.50–7,716.25) and stayed inside it for the rest of the session — a rarer inside-IB day.

Session volume totaled roughly 1,238,445 contracts across the trading day, with about 895,017 traded during regular hours.

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.