Recent content by bigbob

Wow!! Tell me what you are trading. I'll trade against you any day. I'll sell you some March options if you want. Seriously: Today was expiration. The actual day of rollover for stock index futures is on the Thursday 1 week before expiration(1 week and 1 day ago). This used to be the...

I'll agree with you there. This week has kind of sucked. A lot of congested trading and then some short pops. Bob

I think these guys might have bought these back going into yesterday's close @ 761.50 up to 763.50. Looks like they lost 30 or 40 handles on anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 contracts. I'll bet they had a bad hair day, too. Bob

Looks like it was likely Comcast's fault. At the same time I was getting flakiness, some of the TVs in the house were losing audio on some channels. Picture was fine. Tvs are run off of digital cable boxes. I called IB and the tech rep had me check a few things to make sure everything on...

I'm in SW suburban Chicago and it is flakey here, too. I'm connected through Comcast. My pingplotter program says the Comcast connection is working fine: 35 ms ping times. It seems that it started just before 10:00 cst and it is still flakey, on and off, as of 10:45 cst.

Well, it's Oct 2, Yom Kippur, about 10:45 am CST, and the er2 is bumping its head again. 732.10 is the price. No one wants to push up through it.

I think we do need another one of these posts. It seems that CNBC has changed around the schedules of some of its money honeys in the last 1 1/2 months. There's a few new ones I haven't seen before. This one gets my vote:

Blue Horseshoe hates Dec ER2.

My theory is that the Hot Tub Sheik has come out of retirement. Bob

How does the quote go? "When you reach your puke point, it's a good time to double up"? Hope you held on, Ozzy.

10:25 and they're still @721.50.

The bear or Mr. Zhang? He wouldn't last too long in the apres-trading culture if his limit before stupid actions is only four beers.

From about 10:00 to 10:18 cst (so far) someone is offering iceberg orders , 100 at a crack in the er2. Theyve held the market down while the es, ym, and nq rallied. They have easily sold 2,000 or more contracts. They started at 722.00 offer, then 721.70, then 721.50. It's 10:20 and they're...

I used to trade for a group where there were some pretty big traders. We called ourselves "they" just so we could take credit for inexplicable market moves.