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I trade YM gaps. I try to put together a recipe of why gaps should fade or not. I look at longer time frames to check on trends, then to a 30 min charts to see if anything technical is developing, volume. I watch for exhaustion and break away gaps especially close. I find they give free trading...

What is the first trade or series of trades? Do you have a trader plan?

Long Hedging or Short hedging. I've been practicing Long Hedging, Buy index ETF Calls and sell index futures to lock in profit or to protect my intrinsic value. I struggle when the prices gap down or when prices continue down just far enough to activate my hedge, but prices rise & I lose on...

Gunning the market, kicking out the stops

Yesterdays high, low, close data. prices gap toward the average of yesterdays prices.

The liquidity of the instrument might vary, so putting on & taking off positions could add risk. Options hedgers pay premium, but keep upside potential Futures hedgers pay no premium, but lose upside. Hedging of any size locks in profit or provides protection.

I've been looking at the WSJ closing snapshot of NYSE market data each day. Issues, Adv, Dec, UnChg, vol, etc. What are the Issues? Is that Primary market initial offerings? Secondary market seasoned securities? Issues total is the Advances, Unchanged & Declines all added together. Any help...

I'm new to Futures, I crave knowledge

Call writing is about providing liquidity. You earn time for holding something. You can earn more premium by holding something volatile (implied volatility). If the price goes up you have to pay someone to keep your inventory. Would you say the prices of SPY or QQQ have been going up or down?

how do I trade that?

Technology killed Sears, check PZ Pilzer, he called it 1990

GC just popped up

I'm unsure whether the platform is going to suddenly come to life, or if I need to keep re-booting it. A gap in either direction after restart might cause a bit of panic?

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I appreciate your attention in research greatly. How does one trade this info for profit in the market?

Free Market FTW

All the baby boomers are about to drop dead, with them goes the debt. hang tite

The gaps opened around 24600-24800 were suspect Exhaustion gaps, Good selling mid week, but then they faded on Friday. The only other gaps on my radar are around 24000, 23550, 22665. I'm using these as Break-away gaps.

If he is smart, then this innovative cash management strategy is also smart. Which part of the system is illegal? Doesn't a smart capitalist in an interventionist economy use the system to his advantage? Earning interest on revenue before paying tax seems like a boon for investors.

I always assumed they just passed the higher interest rates to the customer. When finance companies pay more for money, they take the difference out of the bottom line to protect the customer? Seems unsustainable.