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In Market Profile parlance, it's called a "tail".

Is it vanilla-scented? Those "things" seem to occur at the top and bottom of the trend-channel. If you're "short", you should be concerned. We'll see what happens later.

(1) Impulses have 5 waves. Corrections have 3 waves. (2) Prechter says that corrections should "alternate" when looking at the "2" and "4" waves in the 5-wave sequence, i.e. "2" can be a 3-3-5(flat-correction) while you would expect "4" to be a 5-3-5(zig-zag) or a 3-3-3-3-3, something different...

In a nutshell, the buy-out firms want to wipe out the debt and somehow hold onto the assets and start over with a clean slate. It's possible that assets may be undervalued. The buy-out firm hopes to sneak in and buy the assets cheaply before anyone else notices.

You're right Pabst. If the Treasury would make an announcement to the effect of "reinstating the long-bond", that would definitely do it.

Oh God!..........Dinosaur Alert!........Dinosaur Alert! The two-sided cards were outlawed in 1996. They were replaced with the one-sided, two-tone color strip cards. The old ones are great for writing "to do" lists on them.

You forgot to say that you also want to be a multi-billionaire before you reach the age of 25 too!

Look at soybeans, natural gas, orange juice and/or cotton.

If there's a good meltdown during September or October, that would be 2 or 3 months.

If you "scale in" to a position, you might want to reconsider your strike price selection if the underlying moves around too much. You'll still have to prevent small losses from becoming big losses with your open position.

When the bond futures had an 8% coupon, it was usually 4 ticks per basis point of yield; i.e. a 20 tick move produced ~5 basis points of yield change. With the 6% coupon, it's around 3 ticks per basis point of yield change. It's an "approximate" guideline.

(1) Cocoa very seldom makes big moves like that. (2) The maximum risk of a cocoa short-put position isn't infinite. It's "strike price minus premium". It's a "finite number", but still potentially large.

Is he buying Delta?

There are two different PPT's. Everybody knows about the Plunge Protection Team. They buy the market on huge dips. The "other" PPT that nobody talks about is the Plunge Promotion Team. They try to break the market down in order to bring about world-wide chaos and huge short-side profits. In...

Divergence? Is it how larger-caps have outperformed smaller-cap stocks during the past few weaks? That's usually a sign of a healthier bull market. You want the "generals" to lead the way higher, not the "soldiers". We'll see what happens. Be careful during September and October!

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't..........that's called "randomness". Going from a daily chart to a 1-minute chart will mean that you are making many, many, many more decisions. Each decision will have stress and commissions associated with it. Keep plugging away.

Don't debate! Concentrate! Stick with what you're comfortable with and increase your position size if indeed you've been successful with a certain strategy.

Are you sure you're looking at the e-mini and not the "big contract".

The contract with the greatest daily trading volume right now-----August. August's open interest will gradually "roll forward" into the December contract before the end of July.

The applicant must have a burning desire to sell out-of-the-money put options. Call-buyers need not apply.