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Very unusual week for me, got hit bad in the first three days, and made big these past two (days), for a big swing each time (over 1000), Ended up flat for the week. Very choppy, always 1 or two stocks that were killers. But in the up day, smaller profits on many stocks and no big hits. A good...

Interesting and insightfull insight . Thanks Dan and keafan and mschey. Oftentimes, right after getting filled on long position, immediately the bid/ask become 10 *240 and our filled price is in between bid and ask. (short would be similar but opposite cases). I understand that Don would...

Hi: I have been on the sidelines for a while for OPG (trying hard to refrain from sending orders in the morning). I have a question regarding this strategy, if the edge as DOn said that we are on the same side as the specialist, why do shakeout/fakeout still oftentimes happen? I saw many...

Mschey: Do you trade news stocks too? Lescor , as I recalled avoided news stock. Today, many stocks with news worked well with OPG, otherwise not many stcoks opened with that kind of wide envelope. With the many shakeout and fakeout, I figured that it is better to wait till stock open then...

for the 20 " LCD, waht are the differences between these two? WHy is the 2001 is more expemsive than 2005?

It seems that I am not the only one to find out that the Opening game is getting very tough to make money today. Fortunately I cut down the sizes gradually from 3000 - 1000 to 500 and yet still losing money everyday or the pattern would be small wins a couple days to be wiped out by big loss on...

I am really stunned to hear this kind of size. When I did 3000 shares on stock like EDS, ACn which on average trade quite heavy but during opening and on light volume day can be tricky. I had to piece out and struggled to get out 1000 shares here, 1000 shares with NX and 1000 with market and...

Hi chiguys or mschei: HOw do you instruct Xl to take a snapshot every 15 minutes, what is the macro command? Whenever I open up my Xl during trading hours with the DDE link active, it takes up so much CPU . I think if you let positions to run for a while, the result will depend on whether...

still no luck in opening today. Keep subsidizing this strategy 200 - 400 USD each day from my other trading strategy. Cut down size big time to opening strategy and hopefully it will return someday (better be soon..)

I have traded this OPening several years now. TRied different kind of things from varying number of stocks to varying sizes. Up till last year, I can confidently come and feel the edge using the OO. But since this year somehow winning is tougher to get. Several small winning days only to be...

Terrible day. Checked out DOW, NSM, FCS on the short side. 20 c just went away against short psotions and no chance whatsoever to cover .

I am interested too if anybody can give some basic explantation on the mechanics. From what I herad, it used to be working well but in the past few years (as all otheer strategies are) , MOC trades has been getting less and less profitable. And I havent found any thread on this subject yet...

Cashonly: Why doesnt Don do MOC? I thought the concept is similar to take advantage of Order Imbalance. I know lots of guy do great with MOC. Do you guys do MOC with the same rate of success also?

When I sent my orders from excell using 3 digits (decimal). Oftentimes, I got fill and other times I do not whne stock open right around my limit proce. What are anyone else experiences with this? Do spec cut off the third digit? Or they round up if it is greater than 5 and round down if it...

Excellent result. Correy, do you tolerate shakeouts if the stock didnt go immediately in your favour? I noticed you also have large number of orders and fills which sometimes made it difficult to watch every stock very closely. This month is abou flat for me, did a lot on commissions. I just...

I felt exactly the same thing. The past four weeks or more have been bad for me. I sent many orders and got a good number of fills (up to 25 during busy day), so I cant tolerate shakeout at all. In the past, stocks that work tend to immediately move in our favour. But it is not the case...

Wow, this is is indeed a very good number for 500 shares. Do yu trade volatile stocks? Another down day for my OPG. Not surprising as it has been flat or down for the past few weeks for OPG. ANd once in a while got big whacked. As long as not getting whacked, I am thankful these days. For me...

Just to monitor that kind of positions would take more than several monitors. the trade must be fully automated. Once there was JPM and ONE and after the merger I still keep both of them until they delete the symbol. And it worked okay. Just curious,do any of you guys use ECNs to exit...

Just finished my analysis of stocks with opening strategy, and found out that nearly all (maybe 90% or more) of stocks with enev > 0.4 both on the long and short would shakeout first before going in the direction that it is supposed to. This is is very strange because I normally never have this...

I am thinking about the possibility that the electronic preopening will impact the OPening strategy. This is one of the possibility to move opening time earlier for NYSE. I guess many players would try to do the transactions pre market which might eliminate Opening Imbalance. Anybody has other...