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I'm pretty sure Nitro was talking about the close on Thursday, August 11. The chart you posted is Friday, the 12th.

From my experience as a practicing shrink over the last 13 years, I can assure you that you are drastically over-estimating the importance of the cognitive realm (ie thought). If positive thinking were so key, many more would be profitable. If anything too much confidence in this business can...

A couple comments about liquidity. Especially in back months, the DOTM contracts are thinly traded. If there is no volume, it doesn't matter how good of a trader you are. You will have to pay the MM the spread. The # of OI does not impact whether you can open a trade. The MMs will sell you...

Efficient markets are way overrated IMO.

Thank you for the full explanation IBsoft.

Yes, I understand this is only for those few indexes at cboe. My question came from my experience trading spx. I understand the auto-ex/auto-quote MM is usually not the best price available and it makes sense that a floor broker could improve that price. The situation where I am curious...

IBsoft. So, what you are saying is that IB no longer uses the electronic auto-ex at all? Even when the displayed bid or ask is electronically booked/quoted and the execution would be instant? Can you elaborate further on the logic of this? Thanks much.

IBsoft, Is this a recent change? I ask b/c I have been trading SPX options for years through IB. Recently, I have noticed that fill reports when I hit standing bid or ask are now slow where they used to often be instantaneous. Just to be clear, they used to be slow when I would send an...

What you are saying doesn't make sense. None of the terrorists I have read about kill themselves due to being Muslim. The have a secular goal which they often justify religiously. I don't presume to know what is truly in their minds but the statement by the terrorist group who claimed to do...

Islam is not the key trait for suicidal bombers. According to research on the subject: FACT: The world’s leading practitioners of suicide terrorism are the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka–a secular, Marxist-Leninist group drawn from Hindu families. from...

What a truly ignorant, racist post. Where are the droves of suicide bombings in Iran? Iran is a way more fanatical Islamic state than Iraq ever was. Where are the daily suicidal attacks in Indonesia? After all its by far the worlds most populous Muslim nation.

There will always be a market. The difference is that with illiquid contracts you are more likely to have to pay the spread.

IB has them, but when I have checked there is next to no volume or activity.

The ES options or SPX options are better correlated. ES options at full value are .5 delta the same as ES- 50 per point. SPX options at full value are 1 delta- 100 per point, meaning 2 ES = 1 SPX. This position is a synthetic straddle meaning that it usually grows in either direction...

hrmmmm I was at OL from about 9:30-10. :confused:

I am hoping to be there around 9.

Great, wise post which sums it perfectly.

The thread was deleted because it became a foul flame war- even by Chit Chat standards.

I am planning to cool out tonight at Ceres after 7.

Here is a review from last year comparing a # of the models mentioned above. I have tried an older Zincom which did not work well. http://www.networkingsmallbusiness.com/reviews/2004/0913rev.html It concludes that only the SonicWall, which is expensive, handles the switchover flawlessly...