Recent content by chinook

Thank you rwk. I'll check them out.

Hi all, What tax software do you recommend that also includes IRS FORM 6781 / Thanks.

I used this... They also have online test and you can time yourself etc... http://www.theifm.org/index.php?inc=education/series3info.inc&aux=education/auxmenu.inc

I wasn't sure where to post this... I just got a new Comcast Gateway, (Arris router+modem+VOIP). It's causing some peculiar problems. I can't access Tradestation Forums and client center anymore. Any suggestions? There might be some info in the Tradestation forums but I can't connect to...

Perhaps it's the effect of long only commodity index funds. Are you short biased? By the way, it looks like some posts are deleted.

Any ideas behind today's fast moves? It's popping up/down more than $1 a minute! Any news out there?

Something different though, not exactly choppy... Sharp smooth moves. And large 1-min bar ranges.

crazy gyrations here!

Indeed, the high frequency algos are battling between each other :) We might hit 106.50 at some point, that'll give us the average daily range. Or 109.50, probably less likely.

Boy what a mess last 60 mins. Gut wrenching trend up.

These high freq. algorithms are running at micro second levels (maybe even better) collocated at the exchange. With 5-10 tick stops, it'll be almost impossible to beat them.

Brokers are not supposed to do that! And bots won't know your stops. But 5-10 ticks in CL is almost noise. With all of this high freq. trading, if you show 10-20 lots out in the book, you will get zapped most of the time.

Assuming we saw the high of the day, we can go down to 105.40 ish; that'll make it it a 2.50 range day (if the daily volatility repeats itself)... ADD: on the upside 109.20...

Your stop loss is at "bad location". It's more likely to be hit then 108.01-108.02, etc....