just for grins because this pattern never shows up, i can't find the nikkie,it did a 4 step and blew thru the bottom of the 1st step in 88-90 era,the 87 spx crash made 3 steps and dropped to the bottom of the first, we have made a 4 step pattern,not saying the 4th step is complete
thnx atticus, spec ,no disrespect but that is a general statement,i think the only ones holding it up here are bernanke and company,which is also a general statement
your first responsibility is acct management, so you can keep the store open during bleak times,averaging is fine as long as it is within your size and loss parameters,so is any other type of trading,at this point you have to use the style of trying that fits you best and maxes your returns,for...
80% of those students qualify for free lunch, the parents should be held to the kids grades ,scaled into their free lunch check,you can't expect a lot of progress when the teacher gets the kids for 6 hrs and the parents the other 18,i have a friend that worked with the cabrini green kids, thru...
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-mfgppl-moneyflow.html mini me at work .. http://barnabyisright.com/2011/06/05/our-new-treasury-secretary-is-americas-mini-me/ ..spy buyers 2/1
the 1455 straddle in spx is trading around 6.30,that says market makers are going to keep it between 1461 and 49,if there is a move, it won't be til after the open in the a.m.,after those options get marked,theoretically
i can't remember an exp with this many open interest calls this late in the week,although they may have been straddles at a previous point,they seem to be spread off...where's atticus. any reasons?
not in disagreement with your last paragraph, but last nite you mentioned all conspiracy theories aside,i think before 08 if you believed in conspiracies, you were considered simple, and after 08 the opposite, just throwing that out there , and thanks for your efforts
thanks mav, from your post last night on commodities,your saying it's contango most of the time and every so often we get backwardation,historically..going on a weak memory, was the acccusation in 08 that the specs drove up the price and the physical followed
large open int in deep spy calls,gaps not getting filled,spx ignoring oil and trans,$1 bounce in dollar,manipulation,powers that be, have gotten a bigger and bigger hold on the market,reversion to the mean method is vanishing