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Traders have to be careful not to fall into the mental fallacy of using THEIR position as a variable in their market position. Whether you're red, green, flat, up, or down has nothing to do with where the market will continue and whether you should change your position. How often have you held...

Certain news and reports drop around then.

Short volatility. If I knew price wasn't going to move, I'd sell straddles.

I think the best analogy is fishing. Drop limit orders hoping for a bite instead of jumping in and chasing the fish with your hands...

These are similar to my considerations, so I want to toss out some examples and see what your response would be: The article mentions crashes and volume, but what about spikes upwards? Significant volume near the top of trends *supposedly* predict a reversal. The theory is that it is at this...

Well, to be specifically more vague, a confirming signal of, well, anything! I'm guessing people use volume to confirm everything from trends to rangebound consolidation, my question is what the underlying thesis behind the use of volume as confirmation of anything is. As far as institutions...

So far I like to observe volume spikes as confirmations or exhaustions of trends, but I'm starting to wonder what the logic is behind it, given that there is so much money or holdings on the sidelines. If institutions witness significant movement yet don't engage, isn't that as much of a...

A machine could probably parse useful information out of the order book, but how could a human? Sure, I can see that that massive sell order is shuffling around, appearing and disappearing, but that in itself is not very useful information.

Trading fees will eat you alive.

The option strikes also split.

Basically, if there's a large spread and I'm looking to buy for example, I could either take the ask immediately, or sit at the bid and wait for a fill. Or, I could make a new bid a tick higher, which means I'll be the next one in line if somebody sells at market. But, if other people bid in...

I've speculated that technology will one day enable all online-vendors to function on a bid/ask market, I think that'd be swell. I wonder, though, how second-hand eBay goods could make it onto such a system; probably would have to have some standardized quality-checks, or at least some sort of...

This seems like asking how long is a piece of string. All strategies and patterns fizzle out after a while, so it depends.

Same as the other guy, I got a 40" 4K mounted on a swinging arm. It's the equivalent res of 4 1080 panels, so I figured the seamlessness would be slicker, although I've downloaded solutions for tiling. No XBox, but it's right next to my bed, so a lot of gorgeous Netflix.

Without slippage, yes.

Reading the documentation for some of these order flow indicators; it's unfinished if it doesn't breach the price level?

@wave why

Seconding what he said. Borrowing SPY is cheap by the day. Borrowing 3X ETFS is not.

You need to take a COMPLETE course on options if you do not understand why that idea is a complete non-starter and a very bad idea. Remember, when you are SHORT an option and it ends IN THE MONEY...you ARE FORCED to PAY THE DIFFERENCE between STRIKE and EXPIRATION PRICE at EXPIRATION. So...

If anybody wants to start a futures exchange based on my temperature this past weekend, you'll get some volatile action