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My "leaving office" signal is still quite valid I see. After much though I discovered now emg managed to stay in his trade yesterday. After the second average down the crash started in earnest. He blinked and price was still falling. He blinked twice and still falling. He squeezed his eyes...

Courtesy alert: NoD is leaving her office and will return in about an hour. Strong move should be coming.

Looks like they're in sync now.

My IB bid/ask on stocks is different from Etrade's bid/ask. Anyone know what's going on?

I was a fighter of the market for a long time. I thought there was a zone at which price was too high and I'd short, believing that it had to retrace to a "reasonable" level. Most of the tim eit did and I did well, but every now and then I'd get in trades that were stopped out, or hold trades...

Can you clarify how that works? If you had taken your $32K profit yesterday by the close and the trade was busted, your $32K profit is reversed AND you're now short @ 15.01, and $32K underwater?

Does that mean you'll be willing to take 375 pts heat to achieve target? :D

I researched CF and TNH further and nixed TNH, but thought CF would be a good one to open a small position on in the IRAs for a long term hold. Before the open I looked at the 52-week low, saw that price wasn't all that far from it and wondered if it would retest that low. I remembered how years...

Technical glitch, my ass. Looks to me like the sell programs all triggered at once based on a technical price breakdown and worked absolutely flawlessly.

Yes ET did stop working. I actually believe you kept averaging through that crap and made money on the trade, because when price sliced right through the 1124.75 low on the second visit and broke down badly I figured whatever plan you may have had went out the window and you were the deer in the...

I think I shoulda swung those shorts you talked me into the other day :D

I respectfully disagree. I believe tomorrow will be Friday until approximately 9:31am ET at which point it will quickly jump to Saturday, where it will find very little resistance, run straight to Saturday night, and hit stops through a wide range of bars.

OK, I have to post so I can say to Hermit: Solid day, mate! Pray tell what treachery brought this on? Did your standing limit order to buy ACN at .01 finally fill? Or were you short 1000 SPY at 113.50 when it put in that lower high? :cool: :D

Reversion to mean doesn't get any meaner than today, eh?

At this point I have a backup account, a backup PC, a secondary internet provider, and UPS's on everything. I also place stops on all my trades the moment they're filled, and quite often I bracket a target too. In the time it would've taken me to switch to anything different, ES had bounced huge...

No, I'm just slow and steady wins the race. Watched CL and ES half the day for signs of a reversal to the long side because they seemed very overdone (lmfao about that now). I traded my old standby, POT, 1 long, 2 shorts, done before 11:00am with a little over a G. Kind of sad I didn't hang on...

Darn, ycxc, I was hoping you'd say, "Shorted the breakdown at 1124.50 looking to scalp a couple pts and accidentally ended up with 50 pts :D

I'm thinking it might be a while before we see 1216 again.

I was watching both CL and ES for reversal signals half the day because they both seemed quite overdone. I saw emg moving his bid down and finally filled at 1135 and I didn't care much for that, no man's land to me, and I was eyeing 1125. It bounced so quickly off 1125, pretty much the 5 pts I...

It was surreal. My IB DOM froze up at 1099, but My QuoteTracker charts were in the 1060's. My Etrade stocks charts all flatlined and I wasn't sure what was real, but I couldn't trade anything. It was a good day for folks who have GTC limit buy orders at deep prices. I'm sure there were people...