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Greenleaf, Kap's equation is the one you want, M is your slope, rise/run, dy/dx and C is your offset constant. So if you have two points on the line you can find the slope of the line and with that just solve the equation for the two extended points you want. -doji

ok here is my question: What is the relationship between instruments with the same underlying? For instance DIA, YM, $INDU, or SPY, ES, $SPX. The futures versus the cash is pretty clear, so I guess what I am interested in is the relationship between the etfs and the cash and the etfs and the...

not just you, they had a bulletin up saying that the ecbot was unavailable for trading, problem at the exchange. oh hey looks like it just came back up, I noticed the exchange didnt have a problem with tradestation. Must be the massive movements we are seeing today. -doji

Ok, I'm comfortable with options, comfortable with futures but I have a few basic questions regarding options on futures. To make it easy I'll give an example and if my understanding is woefully incorrect I'd appreciate someone letting me know. ex. Straddle YMM04 is at 10000...

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I never quite understood what all the complaining was about since I don't usually trade through announcements, but since I was long dia I payed close attention today. It was pretty bad I must have been without ecbot quotes for at least 20 minutes (I had tradestation running side by side so it...

35 minutes? sad to say sounds like they are getting faster :( -doji

yep looks like a bad rumor, kind of interesting take a look at the book on it right now, bids are lining up. I think the actual verdict overloaded all my quotes, got knocked out of schwab, IB, and optionsxpress, granted could have just been a coincidence did see a cable van running through...

I shorted it at 28, I have some unresolved issues with them. -doji

If it makes you feel better I took my profits on TASR somewhere around 18 a share... -doji

50 cents, yeah I was thinking the same thing regarding osama, but it was the only thing I could come up with that would qualify as a single event of good news that could take a short by surprise, I don't think the markets blinked when saddam was caught. You have a good point on expect the...

50 cent, I've actually been wracking my brains the last couple of days trying to think up a scenario where being short overnight has anywhere near the risk of being long overnight. It's pretty easy to come up with situations that could panic the market and cause it to drop say 20% while I'm...

visiontrader, when you are looking at gaps to play do you target the nearest gap? For example, YM gapped up 30-40 yesterday, didn't fill and today it looks like it will open down about 20, would you look at yesterdays gap filling to 10586 or todays gap filling to 10675? Sort of...