Recent content by trade-9

I like this idea. I wonder what the best way to see breadth in a trading platform is. Perhaps a watchlist of sector ETFs, or a watchlist of the top ## stocks that comprise the S&P?

I saw someone posted FinViz's S&P 500 Map visualization to stocktwits today and I was wondering if anyone's aware of anything like that in eSignal or Trader Workstation. I don't really have a specific goal in mind, but it seemed like it could be something useful. I'm also interested to hear...

Is there some way to view (and chart) the put/call volume ratio for a particular equity? I know you can view it for all equities, all indices, or all equities+indices combined, but how about for a particular stock? I'd like to be able to do this in eSignal or Trader Workstation, but if...

Do you know what any of those algorithms are called or what the idea behind how they work is?

I was curious if any types of patterns may emerge that would be advantageous - like maybe different types of buyers/sellers have distinct patterns and when they are mixed together, it muddies the waters. Maybe not though and maybe the opposite is true since traders take action based on...

I closed out by selling between bid and midpoint (bid was 1.71 and I sold at 1.92 via limit order). I didn't sell around intrinsic because I didn't know better and was just operating in "get in the spread" mindset, but afterwards when I saw what happened it got me thinking. Okay, good to know...

I'm not sure how this would even be possible, but I thought I'd pose it anyways. I was wondering what sort of patterns might emerge if there was a way to show a chart on a stock which only incorporated activity from trading (i.e. investment activity such as buy and hold would be excluded). Is...

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Is there a formula you recommend using in determining how to value it? Should you never sell for more than a few cents lower than the intrinsic value for example, unless fast moving underlying?

I sold an in the money call option at $1.92 when bid was $1.71 and ask was $2.45 but immediately after I sold (within the same second), the bid jumped $0.50 to $2.25 (probably because they realized a sucker [me] was selling at a steal - the underlying wasn't moving quickly at the time to warrant...